Arturs

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Arturs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Britu karavadoņa Ūtas Pendragona dēls (king Arthur; 5.-6.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 141(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 149K
  • ISIceland1 in 5.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Latvia (measured from records)

13,298 people

Sources
119 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 141 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Artūrs in LV Latvia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Latvian

Britu karavadoņa Ūtas Pendragona dēls (king Arthur; 5.-6. gs.), daudzu ķeltu leģendu varonis; Artura skolotājs bija burvis Merlins

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Arturs 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.

Where Arturs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#1013,2981 in 14113KArtūrs119
GB United Kingdom—≈440 est.≈1 in 149K3Arturs74
SE Sweden—1551 in 66K155Arturs16
US United States—≈140 est.≈1 in 2.4M—Arturs77
NO Norway—≈120 est.≈1 in 45K710Arturs12
LT Lithuania—≈110 est.≈1 in 24K—Arturs20
EE Estonia#657≈68 est.≈1 in 18KlistedArturs9
IS Iceland—651 in 5.4K65——

13,298 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Arturs is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, Latvia, United States, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Artūrs, Artürs, Artuers, Artúrs

  • Russian given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Latvia, Ukraine, Estonia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Артурс, Artūrs, Artûrs, Artúrs, Artürs

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Latvia, United Kingdom, United States

    Also written Artūrs

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Artūrs

  • Serbian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Languages: Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Artūrs, Artürs

  • Czech given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Artūrs, Artürs, Artúrs

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Arturs is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Artur Rasizadə, b. 1935Arthur Chilingarov, b. 1939Artūrs Maskats, b. 1957Artur Mkrtchyan, b. 1959Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, b. 1964Artur Smolyaninov, b. 1983Artur Beterbiev, b. 1985Artur Akhmatkhuzin, b. 1988Artur Rimovich Yusupov, b. 1989Artur Naifonov, b. 1997

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Arturs?
In Latvia, the national register counted 13,298 people named Arturs, about 1 in 141 residents.
How common is Arturs compared with other names?
In Latvia, Arturs is the 10th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
What does the name Arturs mean?
Recorded meaning: Britu karavadoņa Ūtas Pendragona dēls (king Arthur; 5.-6.
Is Arturs a male or female name?
Arturs is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Arturs?
In the etymology graph, Arthur is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Arturs have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Arturs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled artūrs.
Where is Arturs most common?
Arturs is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 141 people carrying it.

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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, “Arturs” — the 10th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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