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Atticus has been steadily rising for over a decade in the USA and ranked 266th on the SSA list in 2021. I strongly suspect that it is a name that appeals at this point largely to college-educated White mothers, and there are probably several suburban areas in the USA where it already could no longer be called a "rare" name among the kindergarten set. And of course one thinks of Atticus Finch, he's the original reason this is a regularly used given name in the USA today. However, there was a child actor named Atticus Shaffer featured on the sitcom "The Middle" between 2009 and 2018, a character named Atticus Lincoln was introduced on "Grey's Anatomy" in 2018, and the main character in the HBO series "Lovecraft Country" is Atticus Freeman, so the Hollywood feeback loop is now in full swing, and I expect Atticus to make the top 100 names for boys in the USA very soon.

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I wrote a column on Atticus back in August 2020 when "Lovecraft Country" premiered, in case anyone's interested:
https://omaha.com/lifestyles/evans-atticus-was-a-relic-of-antiquity-until-to-kill-a-mockingbird/article_86f1b5c0-fb3e-5940-9447-412d626a4b24.html

This message was edited 3/28/2023, 4:22 PM