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Arty

Boys' name

Diminutive of Arthur or Artemis

Arty has been given to 158 babies in the U.S. since 1936. 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 1961, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Arty, 2021

1 in 377,000

Arty over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arty: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Arthur or Artemis

Celtic languages

What Arty means

Arty is a diminutive of Arthur or Artemis.

Origin, language, and formation

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

Arty comes through Indonesian diminutive.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arthur and Artemis.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Arty is pronounced /ˈɑɹti/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 158 boys were recorded with the name Arty between 1936 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1961; its best national rank was #2,550 in 1961.

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 Arty?

Arty had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 377,000
9 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 194,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
261,083 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arty 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 2021 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 261,083 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arty. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Artys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arty was born before 1961 — so the typical Arty is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
34.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
135
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1960s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (54).

Is Arty 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1961 (11)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,550
1961

Spellings of Arty

Arty is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 24.4% against Arty'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.

Arty around the world

Where Arty 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
    2013–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2022–2022
    #6,281
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Arty 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
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Best rank ever
#2,550
1961
Peak year
1961
11 that year
First recorded
1936
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
158
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arty

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

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Sibling names for Arty

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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