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Artie

UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Possibly bear, through Arthur

Artie has been given to 10,816 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1916, with 180 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 59% girls, 41% boys all-time.

Babies named Artie, 2019

1 in 496,000

Artie over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Artie over time

In 2025, Artie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18802025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Artie: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly bear, through Arthur

Celtic languages

What Artie means

Artie belongs to the name family reached through Artie → Arthur. Its meaning is “bear”.

Origin, language, and formation

Artie is used in English. Its origins include Celtic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arthur.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,399 girls were recorded with the name Artie between 1880 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 180 in 1916; its best national rank was #280 in 1885.

In the United States, 4,417 boys were recorded with the name Artie between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 97 in 1959; its best national rank was #428 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,068 in 2020 to #7,717 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,803 in 2015 to #7,717 in 2025.

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 Artie?

Artie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 496,000
7 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 240,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
343,825 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Artie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 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 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Artie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arties were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Artie was born before 1919 — so the typical Artie is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
21.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.11%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
546
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1910s — 21.5% of all recorded uses (1,377).

Is Artie 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 1916 (180)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#280
1885

Spellings of Artie

Artie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 22.7% against Artie's 0.27%.

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 Artie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Artie was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 30,870 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

017 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 5,882
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 7,692
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 10,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 12,500
  5. 5Alabama1 in 14,286
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 16,667
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 16,667
  8. 8Texas1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Artie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Artie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Artie was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 121,834 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 50,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 100,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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. Artie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Artie around the world

Where Artie 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
    2008–2025
    #798
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Artie

People whose public names include Artie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Artie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Artie. Linked forms have their own page here.

ArtMartie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Artie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#280
1885
Peak year
1916
180 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
6,399
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,717
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 649
Best rank ever
#428
1882
Peak year
1959
97 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,417
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Artie

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

KattieArtemisDottieArthaEttieLettieJettieArthurBertieScottieCatieArtisMittieHettieGertieMyrtiePattieMartieBettieLottieNettieOttieKittieMistie

Names with a curve like Artie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Artie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BlanchFloyAlphaOrphaVestaMittieCecilLinnieDovieLydaOmaOna

Sibling names for Artie

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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