Given name & surname · also Etruscan
Artorius
“descendant of (Messapian king) Artas”
Artorius is a surname from Etruscan, ultimately from Messapic. It is used in Latin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Artorius goes back to a word meaning “descendant of (Messapian king) Artas.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Artorius comes from Etruscan, and ultimately from Messapic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Artorius through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 71
- 71 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Artorius’s family of names
In Latin usage, Artorius shares a linguistic root with the English form Arthur.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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