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Arthor

#10,803 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly bear, through Arthur

Arthor has been given to 613 babies in the U.S. since 1896. In 2025 it ranked #10,803 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1923, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Arthor, 2025

1 in 553,000

Arthor over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arthor: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly bear, through Arthur

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arthor means

Arthor belongs to the name family reached through Arthor → Arthur. Its meaning is “bear”.

Origin, language, and formation

Arthor is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arthur.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 613 boys were recorded with the name Arthor between 1896 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1923; its best national rank was #987 in 1896.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Arthor?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,803
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arthor 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arthor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arthors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arthor was born before 1934 — so the typical Arthor is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
120
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1920s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (154).

Is Arthor 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
+1,698
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
28.6%
Peak was 1923 (21)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#987
1896

Spellings of Arthor

Arthor is not the most common spelling — Arthur is, with 91.7% against Arthor's 0.10%.

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 Arthor is used

Across 1910–2025, Arthor was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 968,148 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in —

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. Arthor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arthor around the world

Where Arthor 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
    2018–2021
    #3,990
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Arthor by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,803
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#987
1896
Peak year
1923
21 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
613
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Arthor

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

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Sibling names for Arthor

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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