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Artan

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Illyrian origin

Artan has been given to 55 babies in the U.S. since 1990. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2004, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Artan, 2016

1 in 734,000

Artan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Artan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Illyrian origin

Illyrian

What Artan means

Artan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Artan is used in Albanian and Faroese. Its origins include Illyrian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Albanian, Artan is pronounced /aɾˈtan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 55 boys were recorded with the name Artan between 1990 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2004; its best national rank was #7,006 in 2004.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Artan?

Artan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Artan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Artan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Artans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Artan was born before 2004 — so the typical Artan is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
55
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Artan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (10)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,006
2004

Spellings of Artan

Artan is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 28.1% against Artan's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Artan is used

Across 1910–2025, Artan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Artan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Artan around the world

Where Artan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    2004–2004
    #4,237
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1992–1992
    #538
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Artan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,006
2004
Peak year
2004
10 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
55
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Artan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ArteoArtaArthasArtystArteeArthaArteenArtimusArtiArthAltanArtoriasArtinArtyomEastanIktanNeytanEhitanArtreusArturElnatanDestanArtemasArthar

Sibling names for Artan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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