The MCARTHUR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,152	2721	0.004	45
United States (1880 census)	1,809	3276	0.004	36
Change since 1880	+10343	+555	0	+9
Other Countries
Australia	1,912	856	0.012	117
United Kingdom	4,720	1326	0.01	103

Top States for MCARTHUR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	1,021	2010	0.006	64
California	956	3227	0.003	28
Georgia	686	1549	0.008	84
Texas	679	3370	0.003	33
North Carolina	666	1778	0.008	83
Top States for MCARTHUR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	436	664	0.020	195
Idaho	160	1084	0.012	124
Mississippi	339	1263	0.012	119
Montana	78	1497	0.009	86
Georgia	686	1549	0.008	84

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MCARTHUR live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MCARTHUR represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MCARTHUR in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MCARTHUR by picking someone at random in Utah than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MCARTHUR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MCARTHUR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MCARTHUR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MCARTHUR in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	218	1.79
White (Hispanic)	207	1.7
Native American/Alaskan	122	1
Asian/Pacific	61	0.5
White (Caucasian)	9,443	77.71
Black/African American	2,104	17.31

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MCARTHUR surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to MCARTHUR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCARTHUR.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.