Atlee
Masculine · “at the meadow”
Atlee is given to both — 1,404 boys and 722 girls since 1880. See Atlee as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Atlee is an English surname of the plainest possible kind: it says where the family lived, at the lea — the meadow or clearing outside the village.
How old is the name Atlee?
Atlee first appears in US birth records in 1911 — 114 years ago. The typical Atlee alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 1,000 people named Atlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Atlee most popular?
Atlee peaked in 1911, reaching #1190 nationally. Today it ranks #3450, 2,260 places below that high. See the whole 1911 chart.
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Where it comes from
From atte lee to Atlee
The story of Atlee
English surnames of place are the most literal the language produced, and the atte- forms are the clearest: a man who lived by the meadow was John atte Lee, and after a few generations the phrase became a name. Atlee and Attlee are the same. The surname reached America with colonial settlement and appears in Pennsylvania records; its use as a given name is quiet and continuous from the nineteenth century, and it is now given to girls as well.
Meaning
at the meadow
From Middle English atte lee, at the clearing, built on Old English leah; the same construction gives Atwood, Atwater and Attwell, all of them recording exactly where a family's house stood.
How the name formed
- atte lee
- Atlee
Related forms: Attlee · Atwood
Pronouncing Atlee
AT-lee
Two syllables, first stressed. There is no variation.
Nicknames for Atlee
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1911
- Most boys named
- 202133 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1190reached in 1911
- Change vs 2023
- +17.9%33 in 2025, from 28
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Atlee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Attlee in English — spelling variant
- Atwood in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania.
Atlees among us
people named Atlee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 51,760 born in 2025 was named Atlee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Atlee sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Atlee is headed
Atlee should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Atlee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Atlee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled and completely transparent meaning.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Genuine nineteenth-century American use behind it.
- A mid-century British prime minister carried the surname in its other spelling.
- It is now used for girls as well, so forms may guess wrong.
- Atlee, Attlee and Atley all appear and none is dominant in American use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Atlees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Atlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Atlee in 2025?
- Atlee ranks #3450 among US boy names in 2025, with 33 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Atlee?
- About 1 in every 51,760 US boys born in 2025 was named Atlee — 33 in all.
- Will my child share the name Atlee with classmates?
- Atlee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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