Altair
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- AL-tair
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #5,606 for boys
Altair is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the flying eagle”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies) and 5,606th for boys in the US (16 babies).
What does Altair mean?
Arabic: star name, from al-nasr al-ta'ir
“the flying eagle”
Brightest star in the constellation Aquila, named from Arabic for the flying eagle.
Is Altair a girl's or a boy's name?
Altair is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK and 16 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Altair in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,065among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Altair, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2024, with 4 boys.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Altair in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,346 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #5,015 |
How popular is Altair in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,606among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 16about 1 in 110,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 39% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 16 boys in the US were named Altair, making it the 5,606th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2024, with 26 boys. It first appears in the records in 2008.
Half of all the boys named Altair in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2024, 21% of the babies named Altair in the US were girls.
Altair in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,606 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,069 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,922 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 19 | #4,932 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,401 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,293 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,344 |
| 2015 | 18 | #5,056 |
| 2014 | 14 | #5,993 |
| 2013 | 14 | #5,919 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,250 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,072 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,585 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,546 |
Names like Altair
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Abdur Umair Ahmed Amir Aamir Ammar Ahad Muhammad Abdullah Azaan Umar Azeem
Names related to Altair
More Arabic names
Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Altair: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/altair, updated 20 October 2026.