Arturo

Where Arturo comes from

Arturo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1867
    Arturo Toscanini born
    Italian conductor
  2. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,002 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1987
    Arturo Vidal born
    Chilean association football player
  4. 1990
    Peak, #259
    1,036 babies named Arturo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #568.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Arturo Vidal · Chilean association football player, born 1987
  • Arturo Toscanini · Italian conductor, 1867–1957
  • Arturo Pérez-Reverte · Spanish writer and journalist, born 1951
  • Arturo Umberto Illia · President of Argentina, 1900–1983
  • Arturo Frondizi · President of Argentina, 1908–1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.