Given name & surname
Altay
Altay is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish. It is used in Turkish and Azerbaijani.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Altay through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 65
- 65 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 16
- #5,619 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 16 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,619 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Altay’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Altay
- Altay BayındırTurkish association football player (born 1998)
- Altay HajiyevAzerbaijani painter (1931–2019)
- Ahmet Altay CengizerTurkish diplomat (born 1954)
- Altay Sarsenuly AmanzholovKazakh SSR/Turkologist (1934–2012)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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