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Artemio vs Artie

American parents have registered 10,816 Arties since 1880, against 2,441 Artemios. But in 2025 it was Artemio that was commoner, 34 babies to 10.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Artemio against Artie, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Artemio Artie

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 146 years in which either name was published, Artie for 97 years and Artemio for 49 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Artemio Artie
Total US births 2,44110,816
Most in one year 64214
Babies in 2025 3410
Estimated living today 2,2003,100
Median age today 3166
Peak year 20011916
Best rank 1,763rd boys474th girls
Rank in 2025 3,379thunranked
First recorded 19201880
Girls / boys 0 / 2,4416,399 / 4,417

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 Arties alive today are over 66; half the Artemios are over 31. That is 35 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.

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