Art

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Art: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Art: Recorded since 1965, with a gap of 13 years, it reached #244 in 2019, and it stood at #329 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
59times a registrar ranked it
61years from first to last
#244highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Art's record

Absent from every published list for 13 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2022
1998	#1821
1999	#1505
2000	#2142
2001	#1949
2002	#2636
2003	#2189
2004	#2304
2005	#1456
2006	#2282
2007	#2741
2008	#1706
2009	#1749
2010	#2036
2011	#1788
2012	#1589
2013	#2660
2014	#1935
2015	#1902
2016	#1903
2017	#1703
2018	#1610
2019	#1745
2020	#1314
2021	#1688
2022	#1879
2023	#2546
2024	#1758

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 29 of the 61 years from 1965 to 2025.

In 2024: #327 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #1758 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1965–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1965
First recorded at #250 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1965 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1965–2025
Highest recorded position: #244 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2019 (recorded 1965–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #329 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Art appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1965, and has registered 226 births with the name.

Art across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Art's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#250 (1965)	#244 (2019)	#329 (2025)	29 of 61	226 (1965–2025)	19 (2019)
England and Wales · Boys	#2022 (1997)	#1314 (2020)	#1758 (2024)	28 of 28	284 (1997–2024)	19 (2020)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#295 (2021)	#295 (2021)	#404 (2024)	2 of 4	9 (2021–2024)	6 (2021)

Art by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Art in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	3	1 of 10	3
1970s	3	1 of 10	3
1980s	3	1 of 10	3
1990s	9	3 of 10	3
2000s	39	8 of 10	5
2010s	96	9 of 10	11
2020sbusiest	73	6 of 10	12

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 12 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Art appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1965 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #244 in Republic of Ireland in 2019.

Art's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1758	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2546	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1879	12	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1688	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1314	19	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1745	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1610	15	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1703	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1903	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1902	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1589	15	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1788	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2036	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1749	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1706	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1456	13	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1821	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#295	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#329	12	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#327	12	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#362	10	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#329	13	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#326	13	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	13	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#244	19	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#283	16	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#305	14	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#283	16	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#397	9	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#428	8	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#616	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	7	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#328	12	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#473	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	5	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#439	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	4	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#409	3	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#390	3	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#369	3	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#334	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#342	3	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#303	3	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#320	3	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#250	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1965 and 2025, ranked in 34 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #244, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 19 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 2019.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 13 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 56 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cal · #244, 32y
Denver · #243, 31y
Deon · #243, 29y
Inayah · #243, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Constance · #244, 37y
Aedin · #243, 30y
Bruno · #243, 47y
Davis · #243, 31y

Art was ranked #244 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2019. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Art and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Art without appearing here.

Art moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2546 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1758 and #5119.
Garry Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2660 and #2216 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1935 and #4632.
Brent Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2741 and #1756 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1706 and #3687.
Kim Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2741 and #2435 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1706 and #3687.

Moved ahead of Art

Matheo Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1879 and #2018 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2546 and #1363.
Kasper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1456 and #1617 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #2282 and #1168.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1879 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2546 and #1461.
Filip Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1505 and #1664 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #2142 and #1096.

Moved the opposite way to Art

Braxton Compare
Between 2012 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Art went from #616 to #329 while Braxton went from #324 to #577.

Moved the same way as Art

Craig Compare
Between 1965 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Art went from #250 to #362 and Craig from #250 to #516.
Graham Compare
Between 1965 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Art went from #250 to #362 and Graham from #137 to #770.
Garry Compare
Between 1965 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Art went from #250 to #701 and Garry from #129 to #701.
Arlo Compare
Between 2009 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Art went from #701 to #329 and Arlo from #472 to #54.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1965 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #244 in Republic of Ireland in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Art

Art at a glance

What stands out in Art's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Art across 3 official records

Art by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

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Art across 3 official records

Art by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Art appears in

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Art moved ahead of

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