Authur
Authur was last recorded in 2006, when 7 babies were given it; 2,192 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Authur by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Authur?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,664, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 1951, the peak
Authur peaked in 1951, when 56 boys were given it, #934 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 7 | #9,664 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,622 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,452 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,892 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,791 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,170 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,567 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,871 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,666 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,487 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 10 | #4,254 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 6 | #5,982 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,815 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,722 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,243 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 15 | #2,981 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,501 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,438 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,582 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,411 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,797 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,278 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,447 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,680 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,725 | 8.3 |
| 1972 | 11 | #2,996 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 19 | #2,130 | 10.7 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,906 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,559 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 21 | #1,735 | 12.1 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,007 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,818 | 10.1 |
| 1965 | 17 | #1,919 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 15 | #2,121 | 7.5 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,841 | 9.4 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,762 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,955 | 8.5 |
| 1960 | 26 | #1,582 | 12.2 |
| 1959 | 25 | #1,592 | 11.7 |
| 1958 | 30 | #1,421 | 14.1 |
| 1957 | 47 | #1,118 | 21.8 |
| 1956 | 41 | #1,193 | 19.4 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,313 | 16.0 |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,213 | 18.6 |
| 1953 | 56 | #958 | 28.4 |
| 1952 | 44 | #1,094 | 22.6 |
| 1951 | 56 | #934 | 29.7 |
| 1950 | 40 | #1,123 | 22.3 |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,184 | 20.3 |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,322 | 17.1 |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,116 | 23.0 |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,060 | 25.9 |
| 1945 | 36 | #1,082 | 26.7 |
| 1944 | 36 | #1,108 | 26.4 |
| 1943 | 43 | #1,021 | 30.1 |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,057 | 29.7 |
| 1941 | 35 | #1,111 | 28.5 |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,108 | 30.2 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,497 | 18.1 |
| 1938 | 33 | #1,128 | 29.8 |
| 1937 | 34 | #1,123 | 31.9 |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,143 | 31.8 |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,391 | 23.0 |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,117 | 33.9 |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,162 | 32.3 |
| 1932 | 37 | #1,112 | 35.4 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,305 | 26.9 |
| 1930 | 39 | #1,118 | 35.5 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,566 | 20.5 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,384 | 25.3 |
| 1927 | 33 | #1,270 | 29.3 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,301 | 27.9 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,453 | 23.3 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,357 | 26.5 |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,426 | 24.6 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,311 | 28.5 |
| 1921 | 46 | #1,027 | 41.8 |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,325 | 28.2 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,353 | 28.6 |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,212 | 32.6 |
| 1917 | 29 | #1,269 | 31.3 |
| 1916 | 32 | #1,158 | 36.0 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,461 | 25.9 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,877 | 18.3 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,315 | 31.2 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,359 | 30.2 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,295 | 35.4 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,122 | 46.3 |
| 1909 | 10 | #956 | 61.0 |
| 1907 | 10 | #873 | 68.1 |
| 1906 | 9 | #857 | 67.6 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,099 | 45.3 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,141 | 41.9 |
| 1902 | 7 | #938 | 57.1 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,054 | 46.5 |
| 1898 | 9 | #744 | 73.4 |
| 1897 | 7 | #855 | 62.1 |
| 1896 | 10 | #729 | 83.6 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,078 | 41.0 |
| 1891 | 6 | #848 | 59.3 |
| 1885 | 6 | #843 | 55.7 |
| 1883 | 6 | #808 | 57.3 |
| 1881 | 5 | #877 | 49.6 |
| 1880 | 10 | #604 | 90.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Authur a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Authur has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Authur: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Authur, and how old are they?
An estimated 876 Americans named Authur and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (40% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 52 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 790 people named Authur (14 women and girls, 776 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,047 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Authur born?
The states with the most babies named Authur are Georgia, Texas and Alabama, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 110 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 91 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 76 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 58 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 54 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 50 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| South Carolina | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arkansas | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Authur is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Authur is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 1.9 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 Authur with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,795 babies since 1880, Authur is the second most given (32% of them).
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 Authur
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 Authur and names like it
- Compare Authur and AutherBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sAuthur peaked in 1951.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Authur since 1910.
- The top names of 1951The year the most babies were named Authur.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Authur alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.