diff --git a/docs/changelog/fix-old-cuda-atomics.md b/docs/changelog/fix-old-cuda-atomics.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..87ca20bd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changelog/fix-old-cuda-atomics.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Fix old cuda atomics
+
+There are some overloads for atomic adds of floating point numbers for
+older versions of cuda that do not include them directly. These were
+misnamed and thus not properly overloading the generic implementation.
+This caused compile errors with older versions of cuda.
diff --git a/vtkm/Atomic.h b/vtkm/Atomic.h
index 31a769280..d2648f6da 100644
--- a/vtkm/Atomic.h
+++ b/vtkm/Atomic.h
@@ -226,9 +226,9 @@ VTKM_EXEC_CONT inline bool AtomicCompareExchangeImpl(T* addr,
   }
 }
 #if __CUDA_ARCH__ < 200
-VTKM_EXEC_CONT inline vtkm::Float32 vtkmAtomicAddImpl(vtkm::Float32* address,
-                                                      vtkm::Float32 value,
-                                                      vtkm::MemoryOrder order)
+VTKM_EXEC_CONT inline vtkm::Float32 AtomicAddImpl(vtkm::Float32* address,
+                                                  vtkm::Float32 value,
+                                                  vtkm::MemoryOrder order)
 {
   AtomicStoreFence(order);
   vtkm::UInt32 assumed;
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ VTKM_EXEC_CONT inline vtkm::Float32 vtkmAtomicAddImpl(vtkm::Float32* address,
 }
 #endif
 #if __CUDA_ARCH__ < 600
-VTKM_EXEC_CONT inline vtkm::Float64 vtkmAtomicAdd(vtkm::Float64* address,
+VTKM_EXEC_CONT inline vtkm::Float64 AtomicAddImpl(vtkm::Float64* address,
                                                   vtkm::Float64 value,
                                                   vtkm::MemoryOrder order)
 {