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Authur

Authur reached its high-water mark in 1951 at number 934, and has been recorded 2,192 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2006. About 900 Authurs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Authur

By the numbers

Total US births
2,192
Estimated living today
900
Median age today
67
Peak year
1951
Best rank
934th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1880

How old the living Authurs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,192 babies given the name since 1880, about 900 are alive — 41 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 510 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 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.

Where Authur is most common

  • MS1.37
  • AL1.24
  • GA1.17
  • LA0.83
  • NC0.56
  • TX0.36
  • AR0.17
  • SC0.14
  • VA0.08

Across the country Authur is recorded 0.14 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Authurs are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.

  • GA110
  • TX91
  • AL76
  • MS58
  • NC54
  • LA50
  • SC7
  • VA6
  • AR6

Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.

Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.

Names of 1951

The most popular boys’ names the year Authur peaked:

All the names of 1951

Related names

Authur against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.