Arthur
Arthur places #87 across the country in 2025, and gathering speed. It crested back in 1921, and what is left is the good kind of familiar: heard of, rarely met.
What Arthur carries
Arthur · Celtic
“high”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Arthur’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Arthur, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Arthur since 1880
Arthur peaked in 1921 at #19; #87 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Arthur is most common
Arthur is most common in Vermont: 1.16% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. District of Columbia (0.87%) and Maine (0.73%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Arthur
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Harvey
#251 in 2025 · Celtic
Genevieve
#148 in 2025 · Celtic
Anna
#107 in 2025 · Hebrew
Evan
#153 in 2025 · Celtic
Connor
#166 in 2025 · Celtic
Annie
#182 in 2025
Rory
#199 in 2025 · Celtic
Ada
#219 in 2025
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About Arthur
How popular is the name Arthur?
Arthur places #87 across the country in 2025, and gathering speed. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Arthur have a meaning on record?
The gloss on record reads “high”, of Celtic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Arthur?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Harvey sits closest, with Genevieve and Anna just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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