Given name & surname
Atif
“a kind man”
Atif is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “a kind man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “a kind man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Atif through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 487
- 487 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −32%
- Easing
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 13 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,347 as a first name in 2020; 614 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Atif’s family of names
Atif has a related form in Ateaf. Atif has a related form in Ateaph. Atif has a related form in Ateef.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Attiflikely variant
- Atifflikely variant
- Atyphvariant
- Ateiphvariant
- Atiephvariant
- Ateaphvariant
- Ateephvariant
- Atiphvariant
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Atif
- Atif AslamPakistani playback singer and songwriterborn 1983
- Atif DudakovićBosnian generalborn 1953
- Atif BashirGerman footballerborn 1985
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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