Artist Names
An artist-inspired name can point to a favorite body of work, a personal influence, or a loved museum visit. These notes identify a specific visual artist for each name and distinguish given names from surname choices.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mary Cassatt, the American painter and printmaker. | 2,230#125 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Barbara Hepworth, the British sculptor. | 264#968 | Down 82 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
Paul Cezanne, the French painter. | 1,316#262 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
Vincent van Gogh, the Dutch painter. | 3,267#107 | Up 14 rank positions in five years | 1962 | ||
Louise Bourgeois, the sculptor. | 579#516 | Up 165 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Georgia O'Keeffe, the American painter. | 2,619#99 | Up 78 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Alma Thomas, the American painter. | 689#449 | Up 111 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Edgar Degas, the French artist. | 617#486 | Down 95 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Faith Ringgold, the American artist. | 1,212#254 | Down 120 rank positions in five years | 2003 | ||
Sophie Taeuber-Arp, the artist and designer. | 3,984#55 | Up 20 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Claude Monet, the French painter. | 40#3,043 | Down 276 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Camille Claudel, the French sculptor. | 1,299#240 | Up 25 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Sonia Delaunay, the artist and designer. | 171#1,307 | Down 180 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
Pablo Picasso, the Spanish artist. | 743#430 | Down 45 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Dorothea Tanning, the painter and writer. | 113#1,782 | Up 1,008 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the French painter. | 159#1,253 | Down 138 rank positions in five years | 1988 | ||
Augusta Savage, the American sculptor. | 49#3,215 | Up 523 rank positions in five years | 1915 | ||
Frida Kahlo, the Mexican painter. | 135#1,565 | Down 675 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Leonora Carrington, the painter and writer. | 114#1,772 | Up 875 rank positions in five years | 1924 | ||
Henri Matisse, the French painter. | 95#1,714 | Down 133 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Gustav Klimt, the Austrian painter. | 30#3,685 | Down 593 rank positions in five years | 1917 | ||
Hilma af Klint, the Swedish painter. | —Unranked | — | 1915 | ||
Berthe Morisot, the French painter. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Artemisia Gentileschi, the Italian painter. | 13#7,935 | Up 1,081 rank positions in five years | 2023 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.