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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

'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.

Meaning of MACARTHUR in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MACARTHUR.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MACARTHUR

The following words are slight variants of MACARTHUR that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.