Atlas
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Atlas is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Atlās or from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), from the name of the mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”).
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 316 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Latin Atlāsor(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekἌτλαςÁtlas(measured from records)
Borrowed from Latin Atlās or from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), from the name of the mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”).
Sources 6
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Atlas, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Atlas counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 6.5K | Atlas | 316 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 20 | Atlas | 77 |
| AU Australia | — | 110 | Atlas | 54 |
| CA Canada | — | 53 | Atlas | 58 |
| DE Germany | — | — | Atlas | 54 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 3.5K | — | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TÜİK NIP — newborn names; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Charles Atlasb. 1892ITAmerican bodybuilder (1892–1972)
- David Atlasb. 1924USmeteorologist and radar pioneer (1924-2015)
- Georges Atlasb. 1926FRFrench actor (1926-1996)
- Charles Atlasb. 1949USvideo artist and film director (born 1949)
- Scott Atlasb. 1955USAmerican physician and healthcare policy expert
- Teddy Atlasb. 1956USAmerican boxing trainer, sports commentator
- Natacha Atlasb. 1964BETunisian-Belgian actor, musician and singer who combines Arabic and African elements in modern electronic music (born 1964)
- Matti Atlasb. 1974ILIsraeli dub actor
- Atlas Grantb. 1987USAmerican pornographic actor
- D.M. Atlasb. 1987USactor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 81 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,866 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,448 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,551 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Atlas mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin Atlās or from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), from the name of the mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”). Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Atlas have the most bearers?
- Atlas is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled atlas.
What do you want to know about Atlas?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/atlasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Atlas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.