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Artem vs Arturo

American parents have registered 57,291 Arturos since 1880, against 1,085 Artems. Arturo is still ahead, with 446 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Artem against Arturo, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Artem Arturo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Arturo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1898 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Artem had 74 and Arturo had 431.

Side by side

  Artem Arturo
Total US births 1,08557,291
Most in one year 741,093
Babies in 2025 37446
Estimated living today 1,10049,000
Median age today 932
Peak year 20212005
Best rank 2,000th boys300th boys
Rank in 2025 3,181st627th
First recorded 19931898
Girls / boys 0 / 1,085209 / 57,082

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Arturos alive today are over 32; half the Artems are over 9. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Artem Arturo
Poland 1,3677
England and Wales 195204
France 90280
Switzerland 18100
Belgium 4010

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Artem and Arturo.