Macarthur
Macarthur was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,485 among boys’ names; 1,291 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Macarthur by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Macarthur?
#11,485 among boys’ names, 2025
Macarthur fell from #6,171 in 2015 to #11,485 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 3.5 per million.
142 babies in 1942, the peak
Macarthur peaked in 1942, when 142 boys were given it, #513 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,485 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,521 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,430 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,721 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,924 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,375 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,644 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,449 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,218 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,214 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,171 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,187 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,167 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,858 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,387 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,076 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,739 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,484 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,734 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,742 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,616 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,041 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,417 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,271 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,178 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,920 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,127 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,821 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,397 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,460 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,725 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,599 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,941 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,939 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,639 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,930 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,627 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,257 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,696 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,226 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,204 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,417 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,959 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,682 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,479 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #3,014 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,520 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,772 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,843 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,626 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,956 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,383 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,092 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,462 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,096 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,157 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 22 | #1,692 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,937 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,425 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,372 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 20 | #1,814 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,781 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,638 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,627 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,490 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,181 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,750 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,266 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,693 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,874 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,006 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,048 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,364 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,920 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 16 | #1,915 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,284 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 24 | #1,540 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,425 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 35 | #1,113 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 38 | #1,081 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 60 | #864 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 142 | #513 | 0.10 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,817 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Macarthur a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Macarthur has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Macarthur: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Macarthur, and how old are they?
An estimated 974 Americans named Macarthur and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 22 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 964 people named Macarthur (4 women and girls, 960 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,005 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,566 babies since 1880, Macarthur is the second most given (36% 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.
More about Macarthur and names like it
- Compare Macarthur and McarthurBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sMacarthur peaked in 1942.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Macarthur since 1910.
- The top names of 1942The year the most babies were named Macarthur.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Macarthur alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.