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Artin vs Arturo

American parents have registered 57,291 Arturos since 1880, against 526 Artins. Arturo is still ahead, with 446 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Artin 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 2015, when Artin had 33 and Arturo had 557.

Side by side

  Artin Arturo
Total US births 52657,291
Most in one year 331,093
Babies in 2025 24446
Estimated living today 52049,000
Median age today 1232
Peak year 20152005
Best rank 3,365th boys300th boys
Rank in 2025 4,249th627th
First recorded 19821898
Girls / boys 0 / 526209 / 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 Artins are over 12. That is 20 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 Artin Arturo
England and Wales 243204
France 25280
Switzerland 114100
Belgium 710

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: Artin and Arturo.