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Atlantis

Girl · at-LAN-tis · Greek

Atlantis is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “island of Atlas”. In 2025 it ranked 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).

What does Atlantis mean?

Greek

“island of Atlas”

The legendary sunken island described by Plato in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias.

Say it
at-LAN-tis

Is Atlantis a girl's or a boy's name?

Atlantis is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls and 5 boys in the US.

How popular is Atlantis in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2020, with 6 girls.

1997Busiest: 6 in 20202024
Atlantis in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20244#4,907
20233#5,929
20223#5,885
20214#4,864
20206#3,630
20191#7,346
20180–
20170–
20160–
20154#4,951
20140–
20135#4,267
20120–
20110–
20104#4,931
20090–
20080–
20070–
20063#5,259
20050–
20040–
20030–
20020–
20010–
20004#3,399
19990–
19980–
19973#3,991

How popular is Atlantis in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,837among girls
Babies in 2025
16about 1 in 100,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 18% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Atlantis, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,663rd. Its busiest year was 2001, with 32 girls. It first appears in the records in 1977. 5 boys were also named Atlantis in 2025 (12,003rd for boys).

Half of all the girls named Atlantis in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

1977Busiest: 32 in 20012025
Atlantis in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202516#6,837
20247#12,156
202314#7,635
202217#6,702
202115#7,245
202021#5,663
201912#8,592
201812#8,612
20178#11,611
20169#10,855
201511#9,476
201411#9,512
20138#11,964
201213#8,628
20117#13,339
201016#7,510
200916#7,676
200816#7,738
200716#7,729
200620#6,354
200520#5,994
200424#5,204
200316#6,880
200232#3,974
200132#3,936
200018#5,932
199916#6,185
199820#5,119
199724#4,367
199621#4,734
19959#8,761
19945#13,423
19935#13,435
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19866#9,540
19855#10,672
19846#9,139
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19788#6,946
197713#4,941

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