Macarthur

#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births

Peak · boys
1942 · 142 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,291
since 1941

Macarthur over time

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Rank among boys' names. Macarthur has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201941peak #512, 1942boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#10,6956
2024#9,8947
2023#8,9218
2022#8,3009
2021#7,58710
2020#5,23517
2019#6,40613
2018#5,32017
2017#5,11118
2016#6,05314
2015#5,99914
2014#5,99714
2013
2012#5,03518
2011#7,50210
2010#7,08711
2009#6,80212
2008#8,3249
2007#6,26213
2006#6,46012
2005#9,1157
2004#8,1438
2003#6,71510
2002#7,0559
2001#6,9359
2000#6,8399
1999#4,76214
1998#5,84010
1997#3,73818
1996#5,18711
1995#7,7926
1994#5,45210
1993#6,2288
1992#5,6609
1991#3,81315
1990#5,3829
1989#3,80914
1988#3,52314
1987#4,9688
1986#4,4579
1985#5,7856
1984#3,10714
1983#4,4998
1982#3,28213
1981#5,4686
1980#2,61718
1979#3,35712
1978#2,92914
1977#2,45818
1976#2,70915
1975#2,75114
1974#2,54915
1973#2,85712
1972#2,32316
1971#2,05220
1970#2,39915
1969#2,04617
1968#2,10915
1967#1,65222
1966#1,89117
1965#2,36612
1964#2,31013
1963#1,79220
1962#2,67310
1961#2,53811
1960#2,53511
1959#2,41412
1958#3,0338
1957#2,63110
1956#3,9425
1955#2,55810
1954#2,7439
1953#1,95816
1952#2,01015
1951#1,34430
1950#1,87916
1949#1,87216
1948#2,21812
1947#1,51924
1946#1,40925
1945#1,10335
1944#1,07038
1943#85660
1942#512142
1941#3,5055
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First appearance
1941

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.

See more about Macarthur
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1941
  • Peaked 1942 at #512 (142 births)
  • Births halved by 1943, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1942–1943
Share of babies · boys
1 in 9,726
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 1940s
  • 27.7% of all boys named Macarthur (357) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s357#512 (1942)#1,563
1950s131#1,344 (1951)#2,451
1960s148#1,652 (1967)#2,191
1970s151#2,052 (1971)#2,638
1980s110#2,617 (1980)#4,152
1990s110#3,738 (1997)#5,385
2000s98#6,262 (2007)#7,265
2010s129#5,035 (2012)#6,057
2020s57#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 1941

boys
#3,505
5 births · 1 in 245,664 boys

Top boys' names in 1941

  1. #1James66,751
  2. #2Robert64,247
  3. #3John57,520
  4. #4William47,798
  5. #5Richard39,112
  6. #6Charles32,742
  7. #7David30,553
  8. #8Thomas26,641
  9. #9Ronald24,407
  10. #10Donald22,641
  11. #3,505Macarthur5
More about 1941

boys

1,228,318 boys got a published name in 1941; 1 in 245,664 of them was named Macarthur, which outranked 12.4% of the 4,002 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Macarthur
  1. #3,133Ysmael6
  2. #3,133Zeke6
  3. #3,133Zenon6
  4. #3,505Macarthur5
  5. #3,505Abundio5
  6. #3,505Addis5
  7. #3,505Afton5

Tied with 497 names at #3,505; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1940
Risers
  1. 586Gay#1,573#987
  2. 375Issac#1,251#876
  3. 363Otho#1,334#971
  4. 338Lawrance#1,208#870
  5. 313Ford#1,251#938
Fallers
  1. 508Wilkie#792#1,300
  2. 452Arlis#994#1,446
  3. 394Ruby#939#1,333
  4. 359Gonzalo#850#1,209
  5. 325Lenord#929#1,254

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1941