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Arther

#12,187 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Arther has been given to 5,040 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #12,187 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 132 recorded.

Babies named Arther, 2025

1 in 663,000

Arther over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arther: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arther means

Arther is a given name.

The naming story behind Arther

Wikidata records Arther as a given name. The entity identifier is Q105440998, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,993 boys were recorded with the name Arther between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 132 in 1922; its best national rank was #375 in 1884.

In the United States, 47 girls were recorded with the name Arther between 1923 and 1946. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1928; its best national rank was #3,525 in 1940.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Arther?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,187
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arther sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arther. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arthers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arther was born before 1929 — so the typical Arther is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.50%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
796
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1920s — 23.4% of all recorded uses (1,170).

Is Arther rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
3.8%
Peak was 1922 (132)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#375
1884

Spellings of Arther

Arther is not the most common spelling — Arthur is, with 53.7% against Arther's 0.49%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Arther is used

Across 1910–2025, Arther was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 3,846 boys, against 1 in 35,180 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

026 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 3,846
  2. 2Alabama1 in 6,667
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 8,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 14,286
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 14,286
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 16,667
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 25,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Arther has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arther around the world

Where Arther ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2020–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1966–1966
    #536
    in 1966

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Arther by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,187
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#375
1884
Peak year
1922
132 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,993
Count in 2025
5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,525
1940
Peak year
1928
7 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
1946
All-time count
47
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arther

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Arther

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Arther, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Arther

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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