Given name
Atul
“un-”·“equal, comparable”
Atul is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Atul is a romanization of अतुल. अतुल is built from elements meaning “un-” and “equal, comparable”.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1965. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Atul through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 212
- 212 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 2005. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,252 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Atul’s family of names
In Hindi usage, Atul is a Roman-alphabet rendering of अतुल.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Atul
- Atul GawandeAmerican surgeonborn 1965
- Atul KulkarniIndian actorborn 1965
- Atul Agnihotriactor and directorborn 1970
- Atul Prasad SenIndian musician and activist (1871-1934)
- Atul DodiyaIndian artist (born 1959)
- Atul ParchureIndian actor1966–2024
- Atul ChitnisGerman-born Indian consulting technologist1962–2013
- Atul Chandra ChatterjeeIndian diplomat (1874-1955)
- Atul BhatkhalkarIndian politicianborn 1965
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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