Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Ato

#19,011 most common boys' name of all time · #49,883 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1972–1983

Rank among boys
#19,011
Rank overall
#49,883 of 105,966
First appeared
1972
Years on the list
8 of 146
All-time
56
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1975 #3,068
Best rank
#3,068 1975
Girls Boys peak 13/yr
1980

Ato first appears in 1972. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1983 — 5 5 #6,843
1980 — 5 5 #6,858
1979 — 7 7 #5,214
1978 — 8 8 #4,465
1975 — 13 13 #3,068
1974 — 8 8 #4,154
1973 — 5 5 #5,705
1972 — 5 5 #5,599