Arthor

#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births

Peak · boys
1896 · 6 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
613
since 1896

Arthor over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Arthor has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201930peak #982, 1896boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#10,6956
2024#12,3495
2023#9,7637
2022#9,8237
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1981#6,2625
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1961#4,0655
1960#3,6656
1959#3,6196
1958#2,8189
1957#3,9935
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1955#3,2017
1954#3,1767
1953#2,9058
1952#2,8758
1951#2,24612
1950#2,20712
1949#2,22512
1948#2,6089
1947#2,07614
1946#2,03013
1945#2,3939
1944#2,08012
1943#2,9647
1942#1,79916
1941#2,08312
1940#2,4789
1939#1,95813
1938#1,81815
1937#2,4799
1936#1,87214
1935#2,12712
1934#2,12112
1933#2,36810
1932#1,99514
1931#1,92715
1930#1,88916
1929#1,73119
1928#2,16214
1927#1,74820
1926#2,30213
1925#2,75510
1924#2,47312
1923#1,69621
1922#2,14315
1921#2,63211
1920#1,82019
1919#2,15214
1918#2,54311
1917#2,9568
1916#2,04314
1915#2,45810
1914#1,97511
1913#2,4966
1912#2,5445
1911#1,5376
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First appearance
1896

The first year at least five boys were named Arthor! It came in at #982, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1897–1910, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Arthor is popular in 1930

No state had 5 or more boys named Arthor in 1930, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Arthor
Momentum · boys
Brand new
  • 1,654 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #10,695)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1896
  • Peaked 1896 at #982 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1897, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1896
Share of babies · boys
1 in 19,928
  • Highest: 1 in 19,928 boys born in 1896 were named Arthor (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 25.1% of all boys named Arthor (154) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s6#982 (1896)#982
1900s5#1,233 (1905)#1,233
1910s85#1,537 (1911)#2,300
1920s154#1,696 (1923)#2,146
1930s130#1,818 (1938)#2,055
1940s113#1,799 (1942)#2,274
1950s74#2,207 (1950)#3,004
1960s11#3,665 (1960)#3,865
1970s0——
1980s5#6,262 (1981)#6,262
1990s0——
2000s0——
2010s5#12,274 (2012)#12,274
2020s25#9,763 (2023)#10,658

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Arthor in 1930

boys
#1,889
16 births · 1 in 68,586 boys

Top boys' names in 1930

  1. #1Robert62,153
  2. #2James53,957
  3. #3John52,447
  4. #4William47,271
  5. #5Richard32,187
  6. #6Charles31,867
  7. #7Donald29,052
  8. #8George22,788
  9. #9Joseph20,981
  10. #10Edward17,352
  11. #1,889Arthor16
More about 1930

boys

1,097,378 boys got a published name in 1930; 1 in 68,586 of them was named Arthor, which outranked 58.4% of the 4,542 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arthor
  1. #1,821Wells17
  2. #1,821Xavier17
  3. #1,821Ygnacio17
  4. #1,889Arthor16
  5. #1,889Abbie16
  6. #1,889Alger16
  7. #1,889Apolinar16
  8. #1,964Adelard15
  9. #1,964Alberta15
  10. #1,964Aram15

Tied with 74 names at #1,889; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1929
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,094Derl#3,959 → #865
  2. ↑ 420Clive#1,378 → #958
  3. ↑ 380Farris#1,272 → #892
  4. ↑ 368Earlie#1,296 → #928
  5. ↑ 357Winton#1,272 → #915
Fallers
  1. ↓ 486Americo#729 → #1,215
  2. ↓ 433Enrico#995 → #1,428
  3. ↓ 371Eliseo#844 → #1,215
  4. ↓ 312Meyer#878 → #1,190
  5. ↓ 304Hilbert#869 → #1,173

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1930 →