Meaning not yet researched.
Arther: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #375 in 1884.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #375 in 1884; #12,191 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Arther in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,191 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1884, at #375.
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Arther: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #375 in 1884 · most boys in one year: 132 (1922).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Arther, making it the 12,191st most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #375, reached in 1884. The most boys given the name in a single year was 132, in 1922. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #1,123 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arther in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 17 babies. In all, 5,040 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,193 babies named Arther.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 20 US boys were named Arther; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 5. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Arthur (551,930 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Arther in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 5 | #12,191 |
| 2023 | — | — | 5 | #12,405 |
| 2022 | — | — | 5 | #12,513 |
| 2021 | — | — | 5 | #12,312 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #10,813 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,200 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,016 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #8,523 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,194 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,228 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,495 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #4,880 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,387 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,640 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,049 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #3,878 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,163 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,784 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #5,851 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,051 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,739 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #3,970 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #3,864 |
| 1973 | — | — | 13 | #2,726 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,831 |
| 1971 | — | — | 12 | #2,825 |
| 1970 | — | — | 17 | #2,217 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,328 |
| 1968 | — | — | 19 | #1,841 |
| 1967 | — | — | 12 | #2,360 |
| 1966 | — | — | 15 | #2,051 |
| 1965 | — | — | 19 | #1,808 |
| 1964 | — | — | 23 | #1,656 |
| 1963 | — | — | 15 | #2,118 |
| 1962 | — | — | 14 | #2,196 |
| 1961 | — | — | 25 | #1,604 |
| 1960 | — | — | 22 | #1,730 |
| 1959 | — | — | 39 | #1,248 |
| 1958 | — | — | 31 | #1,397 |
| 1957 | — | — | 32 | #1,392 |
| 1956 | — | — | 27 | #1,511 |
| 1955 | — | — | 41 | #1,169 |
| 1954 | — | — | 49 | #1,068 |
| 1953 | — | — | 39 | #1,189 |
| 1952 | — | — | 42 | #1,136 |
| 1951 | — | — | 54 | #949 |
| 1950 | — | — | 40 | #1,123 |
| 1949 | — | — | 45 | #1,047 |
| 1948 | — | — | 56 | #924 |
| 1947 | — | — | 63 | #879 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,454 | 50 | #945 |
| 1945 | — | — | 62 | #783 |
| 1944 | — | — | 74 | #720 |
| 1943 | — | — | 71 | #773 |
| 1942 | — | — | 82 | #705 |
| 1941 | — | — | 73 | #724 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,527 | 95 | #607 |
| 1939 | — | — | 95 | #595 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,875 | 100 | #586 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,293 | 85 | #638 |
| 1936 | — | — | 72 | #699 |
| 1935 | — | — | 115 | #539 |
| 1934 | — | — | 96 | #601 |
| 1933 | — | — | 99 | #582 |
| 1932 | — | — | 117 | #542 |
| 1931 | — | — | 128 | #507 |
| 1930 | — | — | 116 | #558 |
| 1929 | — | — | 128 | #517 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,770 | 112 | #584 |
| 1927 | — | — | 119 | #564 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,341 | 111 | #597 |
| 1925 | — | — | 119 | #569 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,133 | 104 | #627 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,023 | 122 | #565 |
| 1922 | — | — | 132 | #546 |
| 1921 | — | — | 110 | #604 |
| 1920 | — | — | 113 | #587 |
| 1919 | — | — | 120 | #546 |
| 1918 | — | — | 94 | #632 |
| 1917 | — | — | 122 | #522 |
| 1916 | — | — | 89 | #617 |
| 1915 | — | — | 86 | #622 |
| 1914 | — | — | 76 | #577 |
| 1913 | — | — | 53 | #604 |
| 1912 | — | — | 52 | #557 |
| 1911 | — | — | 35 | #497 |
| 1910 | — | — | 35 | #463 |
| 1909 | — | — | 35 | #419 |
| 1908 | — | — | 28 | #465 |
| 1907 | — | — | 20 | #542 |
| 1906 | — | — | 18 | #549 |
| 1905 | — | — | 25 | #431 |
| 1904 | — | — | 24 | #432 |
| 1903 | — | — | 11 | #701 |
| 1902 | — | — | 26 | #390 |
| 1901 | — | — | 17 | #469 |
| 1900 | — | — | 30 | #413 |
| 1899 | — | — | 16 | #482 |
| 1898 | — | — | 18 | #486 |
| 1897 | — | — | 17 | #475 |
| 1896 | — | — | 19 | #464 |
| 1895 | — | — | 24 | #390 |
| 1894 | — | — | 24 | #377 |
| 1893 | — | — | 12 | #573 |
| 1892 | — | — | 20 | #424 |
| 1891 | — | — | 17 | #428 |
| 1890 | — | — | 16 | #460 |
| 1889 | — | — | 8 | #727 |
| 1888 | — | — | 9 | #706 |
| 1887 | — | — | 9 | #634 |
| 1886 | — | — | 16 | #455 |
| 1885 | — | — | 22 | #380 |
| 1884 | — | — | 22 | #375 |
| 1883 | — | — | 17 | #434 |
| 1882 | — | — | 16 | #455 |
| 1881 | — | — | 18 | #396 |
| 1880 | — | — | 17 | #427 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).