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Artez vs Arturo

American parents have registered 57,291 Arturos since 1880, against 624 Artezes. Arturo is still ahead, with 446 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Artez against Arturo, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Artez Arturo

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

Arturo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1898 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Artez had 16 and Arturo had 431.

Side by side

  Artez Arturo
Total US births 62457,291
Most in one year 211,093
Babies in 2025 under 5446
Estimated living today 60049,000
Median age today 2632
Peak year 19932005
Best rank 3,141st boys300th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked627th
First recorded 19591898
Girls / boys 0 / 624209 / 57,082

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 Arturos alive today are over 32; half the Artezes are over 26. That is 6 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 Arturo.