McArthur

McArthur is the 2,907th most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,082 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 24,700.

By the numbers

People: 12,082
Rank: 2,907th
How common: 1 in 24,700
Per 100,000: 4.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Partial translation of Scottish Gaelic Mac Artair and Irish Mac Artúir.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname McArthur described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.3%
Black, not Hispanic 16.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called McArthur

Megan McArthur (born 1971)NASA astronaut
James McArthur (born 1987)Scottish association football player
Ken McArthur (1881–1960)South African long-distance runner
William S. McArthur (born 1951)United States Army Colonel and NASA astronaut

People named McArthur with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like McArthur

Also a first name

McArthur has been given to 2,275 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 1942. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.