Artemis
Feminine · “No agreed translation”
Artemis is given to both — 3,299 girls and 847 boys since 1880. See Artemis as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Artemis has been written down for well over three thousand years: the name appears on clay tablets in Linear B, the script of Mycenaean Greece, centuries before Homer. In the mouth it is three even syllables with the weight up front — AR-tuh-miss — closing on a soft hiss rather than a hard stop. It has been given in the United States in small numbers for generations, long before the recent rise the chart shows.
How old is the name Artemis?
Artemis first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Artemis is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 3,100 people named Artemis are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Artemis most popular?
Artemis peaked in 2023, reaching #854 nationally. Today it ranks #1016, 162 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From a-te-mi-to (Mycenaean Greek, Linear B) to Artemis
The story of Artemis
The name belongs first to one of the twelve Olympian gods, and it is old enough to appear in Mycenaean Greek records of the second millennium BC. Her temple at Ephesus, on the coast of what is now Turkey, was counted among the seven wonders of the ancient world, and the crowd defending Artemis of the Ephesians turns up in the Acts of the Apostles — one of the few Greek deities named directly in the New Testament. Latin carried the spelling into European scholarship unchanged, while related forms branched off: Artemisia in Greek and Spanish, Artemios and Russian Artemy on the masculine side. Its use as a given name in English is recent by comparison, part of a broader return to classical names taken straight from myth rather than through a saint or a king.
Meaningscholars disagree
No agreed translation — 'safe and unharmed' and 'butcher' are the two readings that compete
Ancient Greek writers already disagreed about their own goddess's name, linking it with artemes, 'safe, unharmed', and with artamos, 'a butcher'. Most modern linguists treat it as pre-Greek: a name inherited from a language spoken around the Aegean before Greek arrived, which would mean it was never translatable through Greek at all. What is not in doubt is who bore it — Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt, wild country and childbirth, whose Roman counterpart was Diana.
How the name formed
- a-te-mi-toMycenaean Greek, Linear B
- ArtemisAncient Greek
- ArtemisLatin
- ArtemisEnglish
Related forms: Ἄρτεμις · Artemide · Artémis · Artemisa · Artemisia · Artemy
Pronouncing Artemis
AR-tuh-miss
Stress on the first syllable, three syllables throughout. Greek keeps the same shape. The final -is is a light 'iss', never 'eez'.
Nicknames for Artemis
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 2023312 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #854reached in 2023
- Change vs 2023
- −21.2%246 in 2025, from 312
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Artemis in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ἄρτεμις in Greek — transliteration
- Artemide in Italian — same name
- Artémis in French — spelling variant
- Artemisa in Spanish — related form
- Artemisia in Greek — related form
- Artemy in Russian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Artemiss among us
people named Artemis are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 6,534 born in 2025 was named Artemis
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ashlea test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Artemis's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ashlea climbed just as high around 1987, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ashlea's path sketches the road Artemis is walking now.
Artemis sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Artemis is headed
Artemis should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Artemis beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Artemis in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled the way English readers expect from classical mythology — most people will write it correctly on the first try after hearing it once.
- A documented written record stretching back more than three millennia, from Linear B tablets to modern Greek.
- Recognizable across languages that share the classical inheritance, with living relatives in Italian, Spanish, Greek and Russian.
- Comes with ready-made short forms — Artie, Ari — that already work as names on their own.
- The goddess is a large association to hand over. She was a hunter and a sworn virgin in Greek myth, and mythology-minded people will mention it more than once over a lifetime.
- In American records this is counted as a girl's name, but Artemis has masculine roads too — the Greek Artemios and Artemy, and the boy hero of Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl novels. A boy named Artemis is defensible; he would simply be the rarer case.
- NASA's crewed lunar program carries the same name, so for the foreseeable future the word will also mean rockets in headlines. Some families like the company; it is worth knowing in advance.
- Rare enough that a child will likely be the only one in a school — no shared name, but also no template, so the first day of every year involves a short explanation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Artemiss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,100 people named Artemis are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Artemis in 2025?
- Artemis ranks #1016 among US girl names in 2025, with 246 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Artemis?
- About 1 in every 6,534 US girls born in 2025 was named Artemis — 246 in all.
- Will my child share the name Artemis with classmates?
- Artemis will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Artemis
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