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Artez vs Artis

American parents have registered 6,335 Artises since 1880, against 624 Artezes. Artis is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Artez 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 119 years and Artez for 7 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Artez Artis
Total US births 6246,335
Most in one year 21122
Babies in 2025 under 520
Estimated living today 6003,300
Median age today 2659
Peak year 19931951
Best rank 3,141st boys688th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked4,857th
First recorded 19591900
Girls / boys 0 / 624958 / 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 Artezes are over 26. That is 33 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 Artis.