girls:
47 births since 1923
#5669 (1st percentile)
boys:
5k births since 1880
#1699 (63rd percentile)
overall:
5k births since 1880
#3848 (50th percentile)
The name Arther is the #3,848 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,035 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 50.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,699 (62.9% percentile) for all time with 4,988 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,669 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 47 births since 1923.
Arther has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1923 for girls). Birth data for Arther is available in 116 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (116 years for boys and 8 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Arther has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Arther reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 23.5% percentile (ranked #398) with 120 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 198 births per million (ranked 11.2% percentile). Despite a low point around 2006, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Arther ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Arther reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #586) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1946.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arther".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Arthur. View all variations of Arthur.
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Arther. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.3% confident that Arther is pronounced as AHR-ther, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHR-ther, at 25.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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