Given name
Artemas
“a follower of the goddess Artemis”
Artemas is used as a given name. One Greek interpretation is “a follower of the goddess Artemis.”
Original GreekΑρτεμας
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “a follower of the goddess Artemis.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
How it developed
Artemas is a short form of Artemisthenes.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Artemas appears in Titus 3:12.
From biblical name research
Artemas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 66
- 66 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 125 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Artemas’s family of names
Artemas is a short form of Artemisthenes. Artemas has a later derivative in Artemi. Artemas has a related form in Artemio.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 6
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Artemas
- Artemas WardContinental Army general (1727-1800)
- ArtemasChristian saint
- ArtemasBritish singer-songwriter and record producerborn 1999
- Artemas MartinAmerican mathematician (1835–1918)
- Artemas Ward Jr.American politician (1762–1847)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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