Arturo
Meaning not yet sourced
Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #627 vs #2,014 in 2025
Boy’s name
What Arturo means
Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Arturo yet, and we don’t write our own.
Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #627 vs #2,014 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.
How popular is Arturo?
▼ 49 vs 2024
▲ 250 vs 2024
US: Falling: down from #516 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1673 in 2015.
Biggest US share so far: 1996, when 1,058 boys got the name (#265 that year). First in the US records in 1898.
How common
- About 1 in 3,830 baby boys in the US in 2025
- About 1 in 22,661 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.
Where in the US
Most popular in NM (0.92 per 1,000 boys), OR (0.73 per 1,000 boys), TX (0.71 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.
SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.
US vs UK
Arturo is #627 in the US and #2014 in England & Wales (2025).
| Rank 2025 | Babies | How common | Rank 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | #627 | 446 | 1 in 3,830 | #516 |
| England & Wales | #2014 | 12 | 1 in 22,661 | #1673 |
| Scotland | – | – | – | – |
Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).
Boy or girl?
In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Arturo were boys.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| US 2025 | 0 | 446 |
| England & Wales 2025 | 0 | 12 |
| US all years since 1880 | 209 | 57,082 |
| England & Wales since 1996 | 0 | 204 |
Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.
If you like Arturo
Boys
- Jose#95Same root as Joseph, meaning “(God) shall add”*
- Juan#159Spanish, meaning “Yahweh is gracious”*
- Antonio#176Same root as Anthony, meaning “flower”*
- Nicholas#112“victory + people”*
- Alex#232Short form of Alexandra, meaning “to defend + man”*
- Tyler#219“tiler”*
For a sister
- Jasmine#206Editor’s note Down from #110 in 2015 to #206 in 2025 in the US
- Maria#87Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1964, with 10,148 babies; 2,887 in 2025
- Sarah#90“masters, princes”*
- Ana#245Editor’s note Down from #211 in 2015 to #245 in 2025 in the US
- Ashley#164“ash tree + wood, clearing”*
- Rachel#250“ewe”*
Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Arturo’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.
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