Artist — #1850 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Artist

The Social Security Administration has registered 769 babies named Artist between 1916 and 2024, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Artist currently holds the #1850 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 101 babies received it in a single year. Artist is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 76 additional births since 2016.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Artist performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 447 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Artist shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 54 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Artist in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Artist 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 769 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.