The MACARTHUR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,874	7923	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	22	71804	0	0
Change since 1880	+3852	+63881	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	360	4406	0.002	22
United Kingdom	1,579	3589	0.003	34

Top States for MACARTHUR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	364	7233	0.001	11
Michigan	345	3318	0.003	35
Florida	317	5976	0.002	20
New York	285	6561	0.002	15
Massachusetts	283	2958	0.004	45
Top States for MACARTHUR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	187	1284	0.015	147
New Hampshire	111	1713	0.009	90
Vermont	29	3323	0.005	48
Massachusetts	283	2958	0.004	45
Michigan	345	3318	0.003	35

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

Classification and Origin of MACARTHUR

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 MACARTHUR 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 MACARTHUR 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 MACARTHUR in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	90	2.32
Mixed Race	71	1.83
White (Hispanic)	68	1.76
Native American/Alaskan	43	1.11
Asian/Pacific	24	0.62
White (Caucasian)	3,578	92.36

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

Similar names to MACARTHUR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MACARTHUR.

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.