Arta — unisex name

What the Data Says About Arta

The Social Security Administration has registered 596 babies named Arta between 1884 and 2023, spanning 140 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Arta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Arta is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 31 additional births since 2011.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arta performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 125 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Arta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Arta in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arta in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 596 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.