Artemis — #1023 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Artemis

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,050 babies named Artemis between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Artemis currently holds the #1023 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 314 babies received it in a single year. Artemis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 758 additional births since 1984.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Artemis performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 1,446 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Artemis shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 371 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Artemis in 29 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Artemis 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 3,050 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.