Macarthur
#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · boys
- 1942 · 142 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,291since 1941
Macarthur over time
Rank among boys' names. Macarthur has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #5,235 | 17 |
| 2019 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #5,320 | 17 |
| 2017 | #5,111 | 18 |
| 2016 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #5,997 | 14 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,035 | 18 |
| 2011 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #3,813 | 15 |
| 1990 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #3,523 | 14 |
| 1987 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #3,107 | 14 |
| 1983 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #2,617 | 18 |
| 1979 | #3,357 | 12 |
| 1978 | #2,929 | 14 |
| 1977 | #2,458 | 18 |
| 1976 | #2,709 | 15 |
| 1975 | #2,751 | 14 |
| 1974 | #2,549 | 15 |
| 1973 | #2,857 | 12 |
| 1972 | #2,323 | 16 |
| 1971 | #2,052 | 20 |
| 1970 | #2,399 | 15 |
| 1969 | #2,046 | 17 |
| 1968 | #2,109 | 15 |
| 1967 | #1,652 | 22 |
| 1966 | #1,891 | 17 |
| 1965 | #2,366 | 12 |
| 1964 | #2,310 | 13 |
| 1963 | #1,792 | 20 |
| 1962 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1961 | #2,538 | 11 |
| 1960 | #2,535 | 11 |
| 1959 | #2,414 | 12 |
| 1958 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | #2,631 | 10 |
| 1956 | #3,942 | 5 |
| 1955 | #2,558 | 10 |
| 1954 | #2,743 | 9 |
| 1953 | #1,958 | 16 |
| 1952 | #2,010 | 15 |
| 1951 | #1,344 | 30 |
| 1950 | #1,879 | 16 |
| 1949 | #1,872 | 16 |
| 1948 | #2,218 | 12 |
| 1947 | #1,519 | 24 |
| 1946 | #1,409 | 25 |
| 1945 | #1,103 | 35 |
| 1944 | #1,070 | 38 |
| 1943 | #856 | 60 |
| 1942 | #512 | 142 |
| 1941 | #3,505 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Macarthur! It came in at #3,505, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2013, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Macarthur is popular in 1942
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#237 · 1 in 2,142
- Alabama#250 · 1 in 2,043
- Mississippi#258 · 1 in 2,156
- West Virginia#271 · 1 in 2,980
- Tennessee#272 · 1 in 2,903
Best ever in a state: #237 in Kentucky, 1942.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #237 | 14 | 1 in 2,142 |
| Alabama | #250 | 16 | 1 in 2,043 |
| Mississippi | #258 | 11 | 1 in 2,156 |
| West Virginia | #271 | 7 | 1 in 2,980 |
| Tennessee | #272 | 11 | 1 in 2,903 |
| Virginia | #278 | 11 | 1 in 2,684 |
| Oklahoma | #317 | 6 | 1 in 3,579 |
| North Carolina | #327 | 11 | 1 in 3,785 |
| Georgia | #333 | 9 | 1 in 3,922 |
| Arkansas | #334 | 6 | 1 in 3,492 |
| South Carolina | #377 | 5 | 1 in 4,757 |
| Texas | #705 | 7 | 1 in 10,065 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Macarthur
- 801 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #10,695)
- 5,460 spots since 2020 (#5,235 → #10,695)
- 4,696 spots since 2015 (#5,999 → #10,695)
- Biggest jump: 2,993 spots in 1942 (#3,505 → #512)
- Biggest drop: 344 spots in 1943 (#512 → #856)
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 1942 at #512 (142 births)
- Births halved by 1943, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1942–1943
- Highest: 1 in 9,726 boys born in 1942 were named Macarthur (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.7% of all boys named Macarthur (357) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 357 | #512 (1942) | #1,563 |
| 1950s | 131 | #1,344 (1951) | #2,451 |
| 1960s | 148 | #1,652 (1967) | #2,191 |
| 1970s | 151 | #2,052 (1971) | #2,638 |
| 1980s | 110 | #2,617 (1980) | #4,152 |
| 1990s | 110 | #3,738 (1997) | #5,385 |
| 2000s | 98 | #6,262 (2007) | #7,265 |
| 2010s | 129 | #5,035 (2012) | #6,057 |
| 2020s | 57 | #5,235 (2020) | #8,439 |
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.
Macarthur in 1942
Top boys' names in 1942
More about 1942
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1,381,161 boys got a published name in 1942; 1 in 9,726 of them was named Macarthur, which outranked 87.3% of the 4,044 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #509Enrique144
- #509Rodolfo144
- #509Ulysses144
- #512Macarthur142
- #512Alphonso142
- #512Stan142
- #512Thaddeus142
- #518Earle141
- #519Dexter140
- #520Stephan139
Tied with 5 names at #512; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.