How Many People Are Named Mcarthur?

1,475

people named Mcarthur are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 231,718 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,275 babies named Mcarthur in Social Security records from 1912 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#8,205

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#3,036

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Peak Year

1942

290 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.0%
Male
100.0%

All of the babies given the name Mcarthur in the records were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Mcarthur alive today is about 60 years old, and 57% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 47 and 78 in 2025.

Under 30 131
8.9%
30 to 59 510
34.6%
60 and over 834
56.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Mcarthur first appears in the records in 1912 and was given most often in 1942, to 290 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.

Babies given the name each year, 1912 to 2023

🏆 Rank History

Mcarthur has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #357, in 1942.

Boys
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#357 (1942)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#649 in the 1940s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Mcarthur alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Mcarthur were born in Georgia than in any other state: about 106 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Mcarthur was given 10.6 times as often in Mississippi, 7.1 times in Georgia and 6.7 times in Alabama.

Georgia 106
Mississippi 102
Alabama 85
South Carolina 61
North Carolina 45
Louisiana 39
Texas 28
Florida 22
Virginia 18
Kentucky 10
Arkansas 10
Tennessee 9
Oklahoma 2
West Virginia 2

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