# Arto (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/arto/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 15 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 15 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 41, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 5 | 3,670 |
| 1948 | 5 | 3,708 |
| 2018 | 5 | 12,317 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,040 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,112 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Arto

- Arto Paasilinna, Finnish poet, novelist, screenwriter, and jourrnalist (1942–2018)
- Arto Härkönen, Finnish javelin thrower
- Arto Lindsay, American musician
- Arto Bryggare, Finnish politician and former hurdler
- Arto Nilsson, Finnish boxer (1948-2019)
- Arto Koivisto, Finnish cross-country skier
- Arto Tiainen, Finnish cross-country skier and politician
- Arto Tolsa, Finnish footballer (1945-1989)
- Arto Salomaa, Finnish mathematician and computer scientist; academian of science (Academy of Finland), p
- Arto Tchakmaktchian, Canadian artist (1933-2019)
- Arto Saari, Finnish skateboarder and photographer
- Arto Aas, Estonian politician (born 1980)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.