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Artelia vs Artis

American parents have registered 6,335 Artises since 1880, against 593 Artelias. Artis is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Artelia against Artis, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Artelia Artis

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 129 years in which either name was published, Artis for 125 years and Artelia for 4 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Artelia Artis
Total US births 5936,335
Most in one year 22122
Babies in 2025 under 520
Estimated living today 1803,300
Median age today 7059
Peak year 19171951
Best rank 1,652nd girls688th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked4,857th
First recorded 18821900
Girls / boys 593 / 0958 / 5,377

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Artelias alive today are over 70; half the Artises are over 59. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Artelia and Artis.