Artist
#2,111 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Artist has been given to 928 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #2,111 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 102 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.
Babies named Artist, 2025
1 in 48,000
Artist over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Artist over time
In 2025, Artist went to 15% girls and 85% boys.
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.
How common is Artist?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 48,000
- 69 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 24,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,111
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 33,304 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Artist sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 33,304 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Artist. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Artists were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Artist was born before 2021 — so the typical Artist is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 61.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 82.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 752
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 61.7% of all recorded uses (518).
Is Artist 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
- −278
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −239
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 67.6%
- Peak was 2022 (102)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.9% average annual change
Spellings of Artist
Artist is not the most common spelling — Artis is, with 28.1% against Artist's 4.4%.
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 Artist is used
Across 2016–2025, Artist was most concentrated in Connecticut — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 31,603 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Connecticut1 in 12,500
- 2New York1 in 14,286
- 3Louisiana1 in 16,667
- 4Georgia1 in 20,000
- 5Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
- 6Florida1 in 25,000
- 7Michigan1 in 25,000
- 8North Carolina1 in 33,333
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.
Artist by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Artist
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Artist
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.