Atom is a boy's name of Turkish origin meaning “uncuttable.” In 2024 it was given to 38 boys in the United States.
Atom at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
“uncuttable”
About the name Atom
Atom belongs to the Turkish tradition. Its meaning — “uncuttable” — is the sense carried by its Turkish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Atom first appears in Social Security records in 1970. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2051 in 2017, and in 2024 38 babies received the name — 1,023 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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