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Aurthur

Boys' name

Possibly bear, through Arthur

Aurthur has been given to 413 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1954, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Aurthur, 2006

1 in 791,000

Aurthur over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aurthur: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly bear, through Arthur

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aurthur means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Aurthur is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arthur.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 413 boys were recorded with the name Aurthur between 1880 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1954; its best national rank was #920 in 1880.

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 Aurthur?

Aurthur had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 411,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aurthur 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 2006 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 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aurthur. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aurthurs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aurthur was born before 1948 — so the typical Aurthur is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
19.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
190
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1950s — 19.1% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Aurthur 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
0%
Peak was 1954 (12)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#920
1880

Spellings of Aurthur

Aurthur is not the most common spelling — Arthur is, with 97.6% against Aurthur's 0.07%.

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.

Aurthur around the world

Where Aurthur 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.

  • South Australia
    1971–1971
    #512
    in 1971

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aurthur by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#920
1880
Peak year
1954
12 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
413
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aurthur

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

AurtherAurelianAuronAurelianoAurielAureliusAuroraAurelAurynAurenAurelienAurelioAshurMacarthurAureleAuriAurionAurickAurianAurthorAurohomAuthurMcarthurAureus

Sibling names for Aurthur

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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