Boy · Scottish Gaelic or Pictish
Murray
Say it: MUR-ee
Meaning
From a Scottish surname taken from the region of Moray, a Celtic name often explained as 'sea settlement'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A Scottish surname used as a given name in North America and Australia from the late 19th century.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1920s
In the United States
- 22,000 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1922, about 1 in 1,700 boys
- 54 babies in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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