Arturo
The boy's name Arturo has been in the national records since 1898, with 57,291 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 627th. About 49,000 Arturos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Arturo boys named Arturo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 57,291
- Estimated living today
- 49,000
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 2005
- Best rank
- 300th
- Rank in 2025
- 627th
- First recorded
- 1898
- Girls / boys
- 209 / 57,082
How old the living Arturos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 57,291 babies given the name since 1898, about 49,000 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 9,800 of them are children and 4,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Arturos
- Arturo Vidal (born 1987)Chilean association football player
- Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957)Italian conductor
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte (born 1951)Spanish writer and journalist
- Arturo Frondizi (1908–1995)President of Argentina
- Arturo Umberto Illia (1900–1983)President of Argentina
- Arturo Alessandri (1868–1950)Chilean politician and President
- Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920–1995)Italian pianist
- Arturo Sandoval (born 1949)Cuban jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer
People named Arturo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Arturo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Arturo is most concentrated in Texas (4.8×), New Mexico (4.7×), Arizona (3.8×), California (3.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2005
The most popular boys’ names the year Arturo peaked:
Arturo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Arturo | 2,393 | — |
| Spain boys | Arturo | 421 | 99th |
| France boys | Arturo | 280 | 681st |
| England and Wales boys | Arturo | 204 | 1,273rd |
| Switzerland boys | Arturo | 100 | 716th |
| Belgium boys | Arturo | 10 | 1,207th |
| Poland boys | Arturo | 7 birth registrations | 594th |
| Scotland boys | Arturo | 6 | 687th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Arturo: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Arturo | 55 | 0.004% | 544th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Arturo | 27 | 0.006% | 470th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Arturo | 18 | 0.028% | 86th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Arturo: rank by region
In 2023, Arturo was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Arturo | 10 | 1 |
In 2020, Arturo was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wielkopolskie | Arturo | 239 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Arturo among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Arturo | 15 | 68 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Arturo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 28,874 men called Arturo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ourense | Arturo | 360 | 2.455 | 76 |
| Teruel | Arturo | 163 | 2.350 | 75 |
| Asturias | Arturo | 1,047 | 2.161 | 81 |
| Rioja, La | Arturo | 342 | 2.122 | 86 |
| Palencia | Arturo | 166 | 2.106 | 89 |
| Ávila | Arturo | 169 | 2.092 | 85 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Arturo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.