Mcarthur
Mcarthur was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 2,275 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Mcarthur and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 48 and 78.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mcarthur by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mcarthur?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,474, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
290 babies in 1942, the peak
Mcarthur peaked in 1942, when 290 boys were given it, #357 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #13,474 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,547 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,361 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,333 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,884 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,372 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,698 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,855 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,501 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,999 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #12,560 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,093 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,868 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,906 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,930 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,996 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,227 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,936 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,994 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,502 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,322 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,622 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,124 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,066 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,320 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,047 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,075 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,028 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,033 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,162 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,212 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,046 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,054 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 24 | #2,173 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,688 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,491 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 24 | #2,049 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,749 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,194 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,853 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,520 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 29 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 26 | #1,751 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 38 | #1,394 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 29 | #1,597 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 31 | #1,456 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 35 | #1,304 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 26 | #1,527 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 27 | #1,500 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 37 | #1,264 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 46 | #1,139 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 44 | #1,169 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 33 | #1,381 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 21 | #1,804 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 23 | #1,717 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 31 | #1,428 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,140 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 29 | #1,472 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 27 | #1,524 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,411 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,352 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,395 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,143 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 76 | #808 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 53 | #952 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 53 | #951 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 45 | #1,058 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 64 | #869 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 86 | #701 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 113 | #569 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 133 | #528 | 0.10 |
| 1943 | 173 | #471 | 0.12 |
| 1942 | 290 | #357 | 0.21 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,966 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,609 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,403 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,187 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,629 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,006 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,179 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mcarthur a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mcarthur has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mcarthur: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mcarthur, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 63% of the 2,275 Americans ever recorded as Mcarthur. The median Mcarthur alive today is 63 years old; half are between 48 and 78.
The 2020 Census counted 1,170 people named Mcarthur (12 women and girls, 1,158 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,641 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 280 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 491 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 341 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 202 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 88 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 38 |
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 Mcarthur born?
The states with the most babies named Mcarthur are Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 202 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Mississippi | 196 | not ranked | 5.4× |
| Alabama | 169 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| South Carolina | 124 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| North Carolina | 91 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Louisiana | 72 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 62 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 45 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 38 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 27 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Mcarthur is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mcarthur is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1912 it was given 5.4 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 Mcarthur 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,566 babies since 1880, Mcarthur is the most given (64% 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 Mcarthur and names like it
- Compare Mcarthur and MacarthurBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sMcarthur peaked in 1942.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mcarthur since 1910.
- The top names of 1942The year the most babies were named Mcarthur.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Mcarthur alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.