Arthurs
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Son of Arthur
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Arthurs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 9.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 58K
- IEIreland≈1 in 59Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.8K (inferred from the name graph)
2,227 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Son of Arthur.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Arthurs counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,227 | 1 in 149K | 2.2K | Arthurs | 285 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Arthurs | 135 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Arthurs | 124 |
| JM Jamaica | #605 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Arthurs | 12 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Arthurs | 56 |
| NI Nicaragua | #959 | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Arthurs | 4 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Arthurs | 44 |
2,227 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- James Arthursb. 1866CACanadian politician (1866–1937)
- Jack Arthursb. 1922USAmerican politician
- Harry Arthursb. 1935CACanadian lawyer (born 1935)
- John Arthursb. 1947USAmerican professional basketball player
- Paul Arthursb. 1965GBEnglish rhythm guitarist
- Wayne Arthursb. 1971AUAustralian tennis player
- Tom Arthursb. 1980GBBritish trumpeter
- Dante Arthursb. 1984AUconvicted Australian child murderer and paedophile
- Douglas ArthursCACanadian actor
- Edward ArthursUSSc.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1955
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Arthurs mean, and where does it come from?
- Son of Arthur. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Arthurs have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Arthurs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arthurs.
- How common is the name Arthurs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,227 people named Arthurs in 2010, about 1 in 149 thousand residents.
- How common is Arthurs compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Arthurs is the 605th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arthursThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Arthurs” — the 605th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.