Artist
Artist is given to both girls and boys: 12 girls and 69 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,419 among girls’ names and #2,111 among boys’, #4,082 among all names counting both); 928 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Artist by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Artist?
#2,111 among boys’ names, 2025
Artist entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #2,111 in 2025.
118 babies in 2022, the peak
Artist peaked in 2022, when 118 babies were given it (102 boys, #1,678 among boys’ names). The 81 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 69% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,111 | 40.4 |
| 2024 | 88 | #1,833 | 51.1 |
| 2023 | 90 | #1,787 | 52.6 |
| 2022 | 102 | #1,678 | 58.4 |
| 2021 | 90 | #1,771 | 51.4 |
| 2020 | 79 | #1,872 | 45.8 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,131 | 37.3 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,054 | 20.9 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,228 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,198 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #7,594 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,728 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,814 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,643 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,808 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,774 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,471 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 8 | #4,995 | 4.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #4,988 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,569 | 3.4 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,573 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,554 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 8 | #2,975 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,591 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,322 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,751 | 2.7 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,359 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,640 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,573 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,593 | 3.6 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,668 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,807 | 4.8 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,575 | 5.6 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,167 | 7.1 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,192 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,029 | 8.3 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,842 | 5.6 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,198 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Artist a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 928 Americans recorded as Artist, 9% are girls and 91% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Artist: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Artist, and how old are they?
An estimated 839 Americans named Artist and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 7. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 388 people named Artist (69 women and girls, 319 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 288 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Artist
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Artist and names like it
- Compare Artist and RhodesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Artist since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Artist.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Artist alive today were born 2013-2025.
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