Art
Art is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 28 births. Its best rank was 418th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 280.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1961190 births
- Best rank
- #418in 1881
- Since 1880
- 6,108people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,108 boys have been named Art in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 190 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1960s alone account for 18%. It has spent 73 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Art | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 98 | |
| 1890s | 110 | |
| 1900s | 106 | |
| 1910s | 304 | |
| 1920s | 495 | |
| 1930s | 743 | |
| 1940s | 1,050 | |
| 1950s | 875 | |
| 1960s | 1,124 | |
| 1970s | 304 | |
| 1980s | 238 | |
| 1990s | 191 | |
| 2000s | 135 | |
| 2010s | 191 | |
| 2020s | 144 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Art was the 571st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1961 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Art
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tompeak 1959
- Jimpeak 1959
- Johnpeak 1947
- Davepeak 1959
- Leepeak 1951
- Charlespeak 1947
- Lenpeak 1960
- Joepeak 1936
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.