# Anatoly (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/anatoly/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 43 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 43 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | 9,694 |
| 2001 | 6 | 9,304 |
| 2005 | 5 | 11,562 |
| 2015 | 6 | 10,741 |
| 2022 | 5 | 12,466 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9,037 |
| 2025 | 8 | 8,960 |

## People named Anatoly

- Anatoly Dyatlov, deputy chief-engineer of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant at the time of the disaster (19
- Anatoly Kvashnin, former chief of the general staff of the armed forces of the Russian Federation (1946–2022
- Anatoly Mikhailov, athletics competitor (1936–2022)
- Anatoly Konev, basketball player (1921–1965)
- Anatoly Shelyukhin, cross-country skier
- Anatoly Vaisser, French chess player
- Anatoly Koteshev, fencer
- Anatoly Eiramdzhan, Armenian film director
- Anatoly Petrov, animator and director (1937-2010)
- Anatoly Perov, boxer (1926–2001)
- Anatoly Lagetko, boxer (1936–2006)
- Anatoly Demitkov, Canoe racer (1927-2005)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.