Artha — unisex name
542 babies named Artha in U.S. Social Security records since 1895, with the highest year being 1922. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
23% of everyone ever named Artha was born in this single decade.
23 babies were named Artha in 1922 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Artha
The Social Security Administration has registered 542 babies named Artha between 1895 and 1973, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Artha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1973. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 23 babies received it in a single year. Artha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 117 additional births since 1917.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Artha performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 124 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Artha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Artha in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Artha 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 542 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.
Artha at a glance
Last recorded 1973Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Artha popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1973–1895
- Peak year (1922)
- 23
- Annual births at peak — across 79 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1973.
542 total births across 79 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1922 with 23 births in a single year.
Artha popularity over time — boys
117 total births recorded since 1917 (Artha as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Artha accounts for 18% of total recorded use across both genders.
Artha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- 124 births that decade — 23% of Artha's all-time total
Artha decade highlights
- Peak decade 124 births
- Runner-up 115 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1930s was Artha's strongest decade
124 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 23% of all-time use.
Artha by state
Where Artha concentrates geographically — total births since 1895
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Kentucky | | 5 | 0.9% |
5 of 542 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Kentucky 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Kentucky accounts for 0.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1895–1973 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.