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First name origin & meaning:

Welsh: Bear hero

First name variations: Artur, Art, Artair, Artek, Arta, Arthor, Aurthar, Aurther, Aurthur, Artie, Arty, Arturo, Arturis, Arte, D'Artagnan, Arthur

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. German: Variant of Art.
  2. German: Alternatively perhaps a habitational name. There is a place in Schwyz canton, Switzerland, with this name and also a village in Bavaria south of Regensburg.
  3. German: Family historians report an Art/Arth family arriving in Ohio from Mittelbollenbach, Germany in 1848.