Bart — boys' name

What the Data Says About Bart

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,357 babies named Bart between 1880 and 2023, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bart currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1959, when 1,022 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bart performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 6,126 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Bart shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,271 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Bart in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bart 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 16,357 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.