girls:
209 births since 1934
#5507 (4th percentile)
boys:
56.1k births since 1898
#457 (90th percentile)
overall:
56.3k births since 1898
#996 (87th percentile)
The name Arturo is the #996 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 56,343 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 87.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #457 (90.0% percentile) for all time with 56,134 births since 1898. For girls, it ranks #5,507 (3.6% percentile) for all time with 209 births since 1934.
Arturo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (1898 for boys and 1934 for girls). Birth data for Arturo is available in 121 out of the 126 years between 1898 and 2023 (121 years for boys and 27 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 Arturo has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Arturo reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 67.6% percentile (ranked #250) with 481 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 528 births per million (ranked 66.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Arturo ranks #524 for boys (42.5% percentile) with 245 births per million, which is 46.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Arturo reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #815) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arturo".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Arturo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.5% confident that Arturo is pronounced as ahr-TOO-roh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ahr-TUE-roh, at 10.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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