Arturo
Arturo was given to 446 boys in 2025, #627 among boys’ names; 57,291 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 48,800 Americans named Arturo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 21 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arturo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arturo mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Arturo is “a male given name, equivalent to English Arthur”
From Medieval Latin Arthurus.
/arˈtu.ro/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arturo?
#627 among boys’ names, 2025
Arturo fell from #516 in 2015 to #627 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.29 to 0.26 per 1,000.
1,093 babies in 2005, the peak
Arturo peaked in 2005, when 1,093 boys were given it, #300 among boys’ names. The 446 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 446 | #627 | 0.26 |
| 2024 | 493 | #578 | 0.29 |
| 2023 | 451 | #623 | 0.26 |
| 2022 | 505 | #579 | 0.29 |
| 2021 | 431 | #641 | 0.25 |
| 2020 | 476 | #583 | 0.28 |
| 2019 | 453 | #604 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 447 | #605 | 0.25 |
| 2017 | 478 | #568 | 0.26 |
| 2016 | 543 | #537 | 0.29 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 557 | #516 | 0.29 |
| 2014 | 539 | #519 | 0.28 |
| 2013 | 527 | #508 | 0.28 |
| 2012 | 589 | #462 | 0.31 |
| 2011 | 632 | #431 | 0.33 |
| 2010 | 656 | #422 | 0.34 |
| 2009 | 798 | #381 | 0.40 |
| 2008 | 900 | #351 | 0.44 |
| 2007 | 972 | #328 | 0.47 |
| 2006 | 991 | #323 | 0.48 |
| 2005 | 1,093 | #300 | 0.55 |
| 2004 | 1,014 | #309 | 0.51 |
| 2003 | 986 | #303 | 0.50 |
| 2002 | 1,032 | #288 | 0.53 |
| 2001 | 1,058 | #284 | 0.54 |
| 2000 | 1,038 | #291 | 0.53 |
| 1999 | 1,018 | #286 | 0.53 |
| 1998 | 983 | #291 | 0.51 |
| 1997 | 1,003 | #278 | 0.53 |
| 1996 | 1,058 | #265 | 0.56 |
| 1995 | 1,015 | #274 | 0.53 |
| 1994 | 1,013 | #273 | 0.52 |
| 1993 | 1,056 | #274 | 0.54 |
| 1992 | 1,066 | #268 | 0.53 |
| 1991 | 1,006 | #268 | 0.50 |
| 1990 | 1,036 | #259 | 0.50 |
| 1989 | 861 | #286 | 0.43 |
| 1988 | 816 | #286 | 0.43 |
| 1987 | 775 | #281 | 0.42 |
| 1986 | 744 | #282 | 0.40 |
| 1985 | 767 | #272 | 0.41 |
| 1984 | 768 | #271 | 0.43 |
| 1983 | 731 | #281 | 0.41 |
| 1982 | 732 | #282 | 0.40 |
| 1981 | 823 | #263 | 0.46 |
| 1980 | 767 | #275 | 0.43 |
| 1979 | 693 | #293 | 0.40 |
| 1978 | 684 | #284 | 0.42 |
| 1977 | 643 | #302 | 0.39 |
| 1976 | 694 | #276 | 0.44 |
| 1975 | 644 | #295 | 0.41 |
| 1974 | 590 | #310 | 0.38 |
| 1973 | 566 | #310 | 0.36 |
| 1972 | 596 | #307 | 0.37 |
| 1971 | 555 | #332 | 0.31 |
| 1970 | 568 | #335 | 0.31 |
| 1969 | 484 | #359 | 0.27 |
| 1968 | 501 | #344 | 0.29 |
| 1967 | 438 | #358 | 0.25 |
| 1966 | 458 | #348 | 0.26 |
| 1965 | 443 | #365 | 0.24 |
| 1964 | 447 | #372 | 0.22 |
| 1963 | 468 | #363 | 0.23 |
| 1962 | 500 | #352 | 0.24 |
| 1961 | 489 | #360 | 0.23 |
| 1960 | 460 | #368 | 0.22 |
| 1959 | 467 | #361 | 0.22 |
| 1958 | 468 | #352 | 0.22 |
| 1957 | 425 | #373 | 0.20 |
| 1956 | 429 | #355 | 0.20 |
| 1955 | 410 | #356 | 0.20 |
| 1954 | 417 | #349 | 0.20 |
| 1953 | 438 | #333 | 0.22 |
| 1952 | 419 | #340 | 0.22 |
| 1951 | 372 | #355 | 0.20 |
| 1950 | 364 | #353 | 0.20 |
| 1949 | 350 | #360 | 0.20 |
| 1948 | 327 | #375 | 0.19 |
| 1947 | 301 | #395 | 0.16 |
| 1946 | 282 | #390 | 0.17 |
| 1945 | 220 | #405 | 0.16 |
| 1944 | 242 | #386 | 0.18 |
| 1943 | 233 | #404 | 0.16 |
| 1942 | 200 | #435 | 0.14 |
| 1941 | 161 | #466 | 0.13 |
| 1940 | 163 | #455 | 0.14 |
| 1939 | 144 | #474 | 0.13 |
| 1938 | 144 | #482 | 0.13 |
| 1937 | 139 | #481 | 0.13 |
| 1936 | 114 | #537 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 134 | #494 | 0.13 |
| 1934 | 146 | #467 | 0.14 |
| 1933 | 129 | #494 | 0.13 |
| 1932 | 157 | #451 | 0.15 |
| 1931 | 155 | #452 | 0.15 |
| 1930 | 182 | #434 | 0.17 |
| 1929 | 204 | #411 | 0.19 |
| 1928 | 193 | #428 | 0.17 |
| 1927 | 172 | #465 | 0.15 |
| 1926 | 146 | #499 | 0.13 |
| 1925 | 129 | #539 | 0.12 |
| 1924 | 148 | #515 | 0.13 |
| 1923 | 129 | #539 | 0.12 |
| 1922 | 114 | #605 | 0.10 |
| 1921 | 94 | #668 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 111 | #592 | 0.10 |
| 1919 | 75 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 54 | #903 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 52 | #885 | 0.06 |
| 1916 | 31 | #1,180 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 48 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1914 | 35 | #934 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 44 | #681 | 0.09 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,272 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 13 | #928 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 23 | #599 | 0.12 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,284 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 12 | #782 | 0.08 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,100 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 12 | #702 | 0.09 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,068 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 8 | #974 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,008 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arturo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arturo has been given almost only to boys: 209 girls in 123 years of records.
Girls and boys named Arturo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arturo, and how old are they?
48,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 57,291 Americans ever recorded as Arturo. The median Arturo alive today is 33 years old; half are between 21 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 84,408 people named Arturo (155 women and girls, 84,253 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 47,853 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 636 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5,290 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,330 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 13,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 14,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,300 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Arturo born?
The states with the most babies named Arturo are Texas, California and Arizona, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 124 | #303 | 4.2× |
| California | 104 | #340 | 3.0× |
| Arizona | 20 | #376 | 2.7× |
| Florida | 20 | #754 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 16 | #573 | 1.0× |
| New York | 16 | #848 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 16 | #627 | 0.3× |
| Washington | 12 | #579 | 0.5× |
| Oregon | 11 | #352 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #827 | 0.2× |
Where Arturo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arturo is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 4.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Arturo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Arturo
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 Arturo and names like it
- Compare Arturo and ArmandoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sArturo peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arturo since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Arturo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Arturo.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arturo alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.