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Artez vs Artie

American parents have registered 10,816 Arties since 1880, against 624 Artezes. Artie is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Artez 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 119 years and Artez for 27 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Artez Artie
Total US births 62410,816
Most in one year 21214
Babies in 2025 under 510
Estimated living today 6003,100
Median age today 2666
Peak year 19931916
Best rank 3,141st boys474th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19591880
Girls / boys 0 / 6246,399 / 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 Artezes are over 26. That is 40 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: Artez and Artie.