Macarthur
The boy's name Macarthur has been in the national records since 1941, with 1,291 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 990 Macarthurs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 46.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Macarthur
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,291
- Estimated living today
- 990
- Median age today
- 46
- Peak year
- 1942
- Best rank
- 512th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,695th
- First recorded
- 1941
How old the living Macarthurs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,291 babies given the name since 1941, about 990 are alive — 77 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1979 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 Macarthur is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Macarthur is most concentrated in Mississippi (15.4×), Alabama (6.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1942
The most popular boys’ names the year Macarthur peaked:
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Macarthur 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.