Artemus
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Artemus is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant of DArtemas.
- USUnited States1 in 864K◐
- BMBermuda1 in 79K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 1.6M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈406 ●
- Sources
- 112 ●
- 1 in 864K ◐
across 3 countries
5.1K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
Variant of DArtemas.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 385 | 4.6K rec. | 1 in 864K | 385 | Artemus | 112 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 128 | 187 rec. | — | listed | Artemus | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | 41 | 45 rec. | — | — | Artemus | 5 |
| PH Philippines | — | 30 | 19 rec. | — | — | Artemus | 5 |
| AU Australia | — | 25 | 28 rec. | — | — | Artemus | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 20 | 0 rec. | 1 in 11M | 20 | Artemus | 1 |
| CN China | — | 14 | 15 rec. | — | — | Artemus | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | 13 | 13 rec. | — | — | Artemus | 1 |
| BM Bermuda | #519 | 8 | 8 rec. | — | — | Artemus | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | 8 | 13 rec. | — | — | Artemus | 2 |
| IT Italy | — | 6 | 19 rec. | — | — | Artemus | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1 | 0 rec. | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 1 |
Roughly 385 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 864K). 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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English4.3K81%
- Spanish3427%
- Portuguese1473%
- Swahili651%
- French591%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4,262 | 81% |
| Spanish | 342 | 7% |
| Portuguese | 147 | 3% |
| Swahili | 65 | 1% |
| French | 59 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Artemus is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, first-person plural present active subjunctive of artō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1912 | 7 |
| 1913 | 5 |
| 1915 | 5 |
| 1916 | 5 |
| 1918 | 8 |
| 1921 | 5 |
| 1923 | 7 |
| 1924 | 9 |
| 1926 | 13 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1930 | 5 |
| 1933 | 6 |
| 1935 | 7 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1940 | 7 |
| 1941 | 6 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1947 | 6 |
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1950 | 6 |
| 1952 | 10 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1957 | 6 |
| 1960 | 8 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 18 |
| 1967 | 22 |
| 1968 | 21 |
| 1969 | 18 |
| 1970 | 11 |
| 1971 | 29 |
| 1972 | 17 |
| 1973 | 20 |
| 1974 | 16 |
| 1975 | 10 |
| 1976 | 13 |
| 1977 | 6 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 12 |
| 1981 | 16 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1992 | 10 |
| 1993 | 9 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1995 | 10 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2006 | 6 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 6 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 7 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2020 | 11 |
| 2021 | 17 |
| 2022 | 14 |
| 2023 | 22 |
| 2024 | 18 |
| 2025 | 13 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 72 years between 1912–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Artemus Lamb Gatesb. 1895US(1895-1976) Under Secretary of the Navy
- Artemus Lambb. 1905USAmerican Bahá'í
- Artemus E. Weatherbeeb. 1918USUnited States Department of the Treasury official
- Artemus de Almeidab. 1969BRBrazilian equestrian
- Artemus McClaryb. 1973USAmerican basketball player (born 1973)
- Artemus WheelerUSAmerican rifle inventor
- Artemus SheltonUSUS sci-fi author
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 385 | #24,456 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 102 | #158,432 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 21 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 20 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #124,180 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1966 | 18 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 82 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Artemus?
- We estimate roughly 406 people bear Artemus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Artemus have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 385 people bear Artemus in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled artemus.
- How common is Artemus compared with other names?
- In Bermuda, Artemus is the 519th most common given name of 1,057 given names recorded there.
- Is Artemus a male or female name?
- Artemus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Artemus mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variant of DArtemas.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Artemus” — the 519th most common given name in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.