Arthor
Arthor was given to 6 boys in 2025, #10,803 among boys’ names; 613 Americans have been recorded with it since 1896 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arthor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arthor mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Arthor is “a male given name.”
Variant of Arthur.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arthor?
#10,803 among boys’ names, 2025
Arthor entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,803 in 2025.
21 babies in 1923, the peak
Arthor peaked in 1923, when 21 boys were given it, #1,699 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,803 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,501 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,835 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,913 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,420 | 2.6 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,339 | 2.8 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,097 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,683 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,638 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,829 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 5 | #4,016 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,215 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,187 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,918 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,884 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,254 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,214 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,229 | 6.8 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,617 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,078 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,035 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,407 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,082 | 8.8 |
| 1943 | 7 | #2,978 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 16 | #1,804 | 11.6 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,088 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,491 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 13 | #1,963 | 11.7 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,825 | 13.5 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,491 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,876 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,137 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,127 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,373 | 10.1 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,005 | 13.4 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,933 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 16 | #1,892 | 14.6 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,735 | 17.7 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,166 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,750 | 17.7 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,308 | 11.7 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,758 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,477 | 10.6 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,699 | 19.2 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,147 | 13.8 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,638 | 10.0 |
| 1920 | 19 | #1,823 | 17.9 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,153 | 14.3 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,554 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 8 | #2,969 | 8.6 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,050 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,463 | 11.8 |
| 1914 | 11 | #1,977 | 16.8 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,515 | 11.7 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,567 | 11.6 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,547 | 26.6 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,243 | 37.8 |
| 1896 | 6 | #987 | 50.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arthor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arthor has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arthor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arthor, and how old are they?
An estimated 156 Americans named Arthor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (25% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 66 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 226 people named Arthor (2 women and girls, 224 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 182 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 558,280 babies since 1880, Arthor is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 3,858 babies (<1%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Arthor
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Arthor and names like it
- Compare Arthor and ArthurBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sArthor peaked in 1923.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arthor since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Arthor.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Arthor alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.