Meaning not yet researched.
Artist: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 69 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,678 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,678 in 2022; #2,111 in 2025. About 85% of babies named Artist in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,111 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,678.
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Artist: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 69 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,678 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 102 (2022).
In 2025, 69 US boys were named Artist, making it the 2,111th most common boys’ name of the year, down 278 places from #1,833 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 88 boys named Artist in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,678, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 102. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #2,592 in 1950.
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Artist, making it the 8,421st most common girls’ name of the year, up 85 places from #8,506 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 12 girls named Artist in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #7,017, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 16. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Artist in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 7 babies. In all, 928 US babies have been given the name, 9.5% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 587 babies named Artist.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 656 US boys were named Artist; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 102. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Artist ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #954 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Artyst are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Artyst (25).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Artist in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 13 | #954 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,108 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #2,309 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,421 | 69 | #2,111 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,506 | 88 | #1,833 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,057 | 90 | #1,787 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,017 | 102 | #1,678 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,530 | 90 | #1,771 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,638 | 79 | #1,872 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,023 | 67 | #2,132 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,531 | 38 | #3,056 |
| 2017 | — | — | 24 | #4,232 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,544 | 9 | #8,203 |
| 2014 | — | — | 10 | #7,599 |
| 2013 | — | — | 7 | #9,733 |
| 2011 | — | — | 8 | #8,821 |
| 2009 | — | — | 5 | #12,648 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #10,815 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #8,780 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,478 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,002 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #4,990 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #5,571 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,574 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,555 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #2,976 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,592 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,323 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #3,753 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,360 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,641 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,574 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,594 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,669 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #3,809 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,577 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,168 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,194 |
| 1922 | — | — | 9 | #3,030 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #3,843 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,199 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).