Artur

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Artur is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Armenia it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ) Arthur: aus dem Englischen übernommener männl.

rarermore common
  • AMArmenia1 in 62◐
  • BRBrazil1 in 343
  • FRFrance1 in 490

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.2M ●

across 16 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
217 ●

117K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 193 ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

ArturLatin · Portuguese●2M records
ᲐრტურGeorgian · Georgian●6.6K records
ԱրթուրArmenian · Armenian●2K records
อาเธอรThai · Thai●3 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aller in PL Poland, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 2 more, Არტურ in GE Georgia and Arthur in TH Thailand.

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

Meaning & origin●

recorded in German

) Arthur: aus dem Englischen übernommener männl.

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Artur is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#253617,823△42K rec.1 in 343618KArtur195
US United States—205,409△15K rec.1 in 1.6K205KArtur172
PL Poland—198,335△4 rec.1 in 193198KAller7
FR France—138,390△11K rec.1 in 490138KArtur217
AM Armenia#210,9577.4K rec.—333Artur89
PT Portugal#10910,8193.2K rec.—listedArtur139
MD Moldova#5347,076△85 rec.1 in 4757.1KArtur28
RU Russia—6,7053.1K rec.——Artur93
AR Argentina—6,5624.5K rec.—543Aller46
SE Sweden—6,393△211 rec.1 in 1.6K6.4KArtur15
DK Denmark—5,217—1 in 1.1K5.2K——
PE Peru—4,5454K rec.——Aller32

Roughly 618K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 343). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese2M56%
  • Polish991K28%
  • English219K6%
  • Russian63K2%
  • Ukrainian57K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese1,953,17556%
Polish990,89728%
English219,1246%
Russian62,8732%
Ukrainian57,2742%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Artur is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name1.2M records spelled Artur78 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Артур, Arthur, Артурс, Arturs, 'Artur

  • English given name292K records spelled Artur11 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Artür, Artúr, Àrtur, Ăřťûř, Ártur

  • Finnish given name33K records spelled Artur4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Russia, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

    Also written Artūr

  • Albanian given name20K records spelled Artur3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Ârtür, Ãrtür

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name9.9K records spelled Artur8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Artúr

  • a separate given name4.6K records spelled Artur7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, Spain

    Also written Artür, Ārṯur, Ártur, Artúr, Arṯūr

  • Turkish given name2.9K records spelled Artur6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Russia, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Turkish, Turkmen, Azerbaijani

    Also written Артур, Artür

56 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.

Over time●

020406080196019802000202066 · 1974

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Artur in SSB — Navn (1880–present), Norway, 1960–2025
Yearrecords
19606
19639
19649
196516
196612
196725
196820
196932
197029
197135
197257
197356
197466
197554
197663
197755
197859
197951
198052
198137
198240
198351
198450
198544
198635
198727
198826
198931
199022
199117
199218
199311
199412
199517
19966
19977
19988
19994
20004
20015
20024
20035
20044
20056
20078
20084
20108
20116
20127
20139
20159
20169
20175
20188
201912
20204
20226
202310
20249
20258

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 60 years between 1960–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, b. 1769Arthur Balfour, b. 1848Neville Chamberlain, b. 1869Arthur Holly Compton, b. 1892John Gielgud, b. 1904Art Carney, b. 1918Jack Brabham, b. 1926Christopher Plummer, b. 1929Steven Pinker, b. 1954Gerard Way, b. 1977
  • Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellingtonb. 1769IEnot in their usual nameBritish Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834 (1769-1852)
  • Arthur Balfourb. 1848GBnot in their usual nameBritish Prime Minister, Conservative politician, and statesman (1848-1930)
  • Neville Chamberlainb. 1869GBnot in their usual namePrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940
  • Arthur Holly Comptonb. 1892USnot in their usual nameAmerican physicist (1892–1962)
  • John Gielgudb. 1904GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor and theatre director (1904-2000)
  • Art Carneyb. 1918USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and comedian (1918–2003)
  • Jack Brabhamb. 1926AUnot in their usual nameAustralian racing driver (1926–2014)
  • Christopher Plummerb. 1929CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actor (1929–2021)
  • Steven Pinkerb. 1954USnot in their usual nameCanadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
  • Gerard Wayb. 1977USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer (born 1977)

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●

Attested in 77 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Artur
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026198K#30
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—198K#30
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022195K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—193K#165
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—133K#362
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202043K—
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—7.1K#138
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—5.9K#557
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—5.6K#571
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.6K#3,659
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—5.1K#634
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—4.2K#43

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 666 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Artur?
We estimate roughly 1.2 million people bear Artur (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
In which country does Artur have the most bearers?
We estimate about 618 thousand people bear Artur in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled artur.
How common is Artur compared with other names?
In Brazil, Artur is the 253rd most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Artur a male or female name?
Artur 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 does the name Artur mean?
Recorded meaning: ) Arthur: aus dem Englischen übernommener männl.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Artur” — the 253rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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