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Artem vs Artis

American parents have registered 6,335 Artises since 1880, against 1,085 Artems. But in 2025 it was Artem that was commoner, 37 babies to 20.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Artem 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 126 years in which either name was published, Artis for 104 years and Artem for 22 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Artem Artis
Total US births 1,0856,335
Most in one year 74122
Babies in 2025 3720
Estimated living today 1,1003,300
Median age today 959
Peak year 20211951
Best rank 2,000th boys688th boys
Rank in 2025 3,181st4,857th
First recorded 19931900
Girls / boys 0 / 1,085958 / 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 Artises alive today are over 59; half the Artems are over 9. That is 50 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Artem Artis
England and Wales 19529
France 905
Belgium 407
Ireland 353

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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