Art

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Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Art is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It is written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars (“art”). Partly displaced native Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 36K◐
  • NLNetherlands1 in 57K
  • ILIsrael1 in 181K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.4K ●

across 12 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
391 ●

177K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 36K ◐

Belgium

Spellings & scripts●

AertLatin · Dutch●1.5K records
ארטHebrew · Hebrew●0 records

Locally spelled Aert in US United States, BE Belgium, NL Netherlands and 6 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Art: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Art
  1. Middle Englishart●
  2. Old Frenchart●
  3. Latinartem●

From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars (“art”). Partly displaced native Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft.

Sources 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Russian Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Art is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States700145K rec.1 in 475K9.5KAert391
NL Netherlands649776 rec.—291Aert53
BE Belgium325410 rec.1 in 36K325Aert37
BR Brazil177△4 rec.1 in 1.2M177—2
CA Canada1017.5K rec.—2Aert124
PL Poland83△5 rec.1 in 461K83—1
IL Israel48422 rec.1 in 181K48—21
FI Finland3062 rec.1 in 186K91—15
DE Germany242.3K rec.—1Aert68
CH Switzerland23110 rec.1 in 365K23—18
GB United Kingdom134K rec.—4Aert84
FR France972 rec.1 in 7.5M9Aert23

Roughly 700 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 475K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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Other names spelled this way◐

Art is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish name24K records spelled Art6 spellings in the group

    Also written Árt, Åřť, Årt, Ärt

  • French given name5.6K records spelled Art6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Art', Ârt, Ařt, Ařţ, Ãrt

  • a separate name2.3K records spelled Art2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ãrt

  • a separate name1.8K records spelled Art7 spellings in the group

    Also written Àřț, Ãřţ, Ârt, Ǻřt

  • Russian given name1.2K records spelled Art13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Russia, Belgium

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Aart, Аэрт, Aert, Аарт, Арт

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

050100150200190019502000189 · 1961

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Art in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188012
188117
188214
18837
188410
18859
18868
188710
18886
18895
18905
18918
18927
189315
189410
18957
189612
189711
189820
189915
190018
19015
19029
19037
19048
190510
19067
190711
190816
190915
191012
19119
191225
191326
191428
191539
191639
191741
191846
191939
192027
192150
192253
192347
192450
192546
192650
192761
192859
192952
193060
193161
193259
193380
193474
193583
193672
193778
193886
193990
194086
194192
1942117
1943119
194498
1945105
1946127
1947110
1948111
194985
195061
195146
195240
195358
195451
195559
195680
1957145
1958174
1959161
1960183
1961189
1962145
1963149
1964126
196591
196685
196760
196852
196943
197048
197142
197234
197336
197427
197525
197624
197722
197823
197923
198028
198117
198230
198321
198423
198515
198619
198719
198831
198935
199033
199128
199217
199318
199410
199513
199623
199715
199816
199918
200017
200120
200213
200310
200412
200511
200611
200715
200814
200912
201017
201110
201217
201321
201412
201520
201617
201723
201833
201921
202027
202129
202232
202328
202428
202534

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18801900192019401960Art Baker, b. 1898Art Tatum, b. 1909Art Carney, b. 1918Art Blakey, b. 1919Art Clokey, b. 1921Art Farmer, b. 1928Art Evans, b. 1942Art Linson, b. 1942Art LaFleur, b. 1943Art Malik, b. 1952
  • Art Bakerb. 1898USfilm, television and radio actor (1898-1966)
  • Art Tatumb. 1909USAmerican jazz pianist (1909–1956)
  • Art Carneyb. 1918USAmerican actor and comedian (1918–2003)
  • Art Blakeyb. 1919USAmerican jazz drummer and bandleader (1919–1990)
  • Art Clokeyb. 1921USAmerican animator (1921-2010)
  • Art Farmerb. 1928USAmerican jazz trumpeter (1928–1999)
  • Art Evansb. 1942USAmerican actor (1942–2024)
  • Art Linsonb. 1942USScreenwriter, film director, film producer
  • Art LaFleurb. 1943USAmerican actor (1943–2021)
  • Art Malikb. 1952PKBritish actor

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 63 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Art
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20209.5K#2,547
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—2.9K#216
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020720#33,969
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010700#32,792
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000657#32,900
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008325#5,039
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—310#5,487
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—291#2,288
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—219#5,178
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—177#40,590
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—112#7,157
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—111#651

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 360 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Art?
We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Art (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Art have the most bearers?
We estimate about 700 people bear Art in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled aert.
Where is Art most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Art is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 36 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Art mean?
Recorded meaning: From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars (“art”). Partly displaced native Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Art”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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