Artist
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · #2,108 for boys in 2025, 69 births
Given to boys 90.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 102 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 840since 1916
Artist over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | #2,108 | 69 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | #1,833 | 88 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #1,787 | 90 |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 | #1,678 | 102 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #1,770 | 90 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #1,872 | 79 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #2,129 | 67 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #3,055 | 38 |
| 2017 | — | #4,224 | 24 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | — | — | ||
| 2014 | — | #7,562 | 10 | |
| 2013 | — | #9,655 | 7 | |
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| 2011 | — | #8,767 | 8 | |
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| 2009 | — | #12,491 | 5 | |
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| 2002 | — | #10,667 | 5 | |
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| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
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| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
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| 1981 | — | #4,961 | 7 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
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| 1950 | — | #2,580 | 9 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
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| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,633 | 8 | |
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
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| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
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| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1927 | — | #3,151 | 8 | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,175 | 8 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,014 | 9 | |
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| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,177 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Artist! It came in at #3,177, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1919, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Artist
- 275 spots since 2024 (#1,833 → #2,108)
- 236 spots since 2020 (#1,872 → #2,108)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2022 at #1,678 (102 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,118 boys born in 2022 were named Artist (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 61.7% of all boys named Artist (518) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | #3,177 (1916) | #3,177 |
| 1920s | 37 | #3,014 (1922) | #3,343 |
| 1930s | 10 | #3,645 (1935) | #3,711 |
| 1940s | 34 | #2,633 (1944) | #3,350 |
| 1950s | 29 | #2,580 (1950) | #3,158 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 27 | #4,961 (1981) | #5,470 |
| 1990s | 5 | #8,700 (1993) | #8,700 |
| 2000s | 10 | #10,667 (2002) | #11,579 |
| 2010s | 163 | #2,129 (2019) | #6,220 |
| 2020s | 518 | #1,678 (2022) | #1,841 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Artist in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 212,634 of them was named Artist, which outranked 37.0% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,545Zyelle9
- #10,545Zyion9
- #10,545Zynique9
- #11,427Artist8
- #11,427Aada8
- #11,427Aadhvika8
- #11,427Aailyah8
- #12,464Aaisha7
- #12,464Aalana7
- #12,464Aaleah7
Tied with 1,036 names at #11,427; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 47,794 of them was named Artist, which outranked 78.4% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,994Yaqub39
- #2,994Zakary39
- #2,994Zedekiah39
- #3,055Artist38
- #3,055Anirudh38
- #3,055Ashten38
- #3,055Bennie38
- #3,106Ahad37
- #3,106Alexei37
- #3,106Alim37
Tied with 50 names at #3,055; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.