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Murad

#2,824 in 2025Boys' name

Wish, desire, wanted

Murad has been given to 1,133 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #2,824 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Murad, 2025

1 in 73,700

Murad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Murad: meaning, origin, and history

Wish, desire, wanted

Arabic

What Murad means

Murad means “wish, desire, wanted”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Ottoman Turkish مراد (murad), from Arabic مُرَاد (murād).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Murad (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Murad is used in English, Azerbaijani and Tausug. Its origins include Arabic.

Murad comes through Ottoman Turkish مراد and Arabic مُرَاد.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tausug, Murad is pronounced /muɾad/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,133 boys were recorded with the name Murad between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 56 in 2016; its best national rank was #2,330 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,113 in 2020 to #2,824 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,836 in 2015 to #2,824 in 2025.

How common is Murad?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 73,700
45 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 38,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,824
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
51,066 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Murad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 51,066 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Murad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Murads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Murad was born before 2011 — so the typical Murad is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,133
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (346).

Is Murad rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+162
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+289
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,012
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.4%
Peak was 2016 (56)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,330
1977

Spellings of Murad

Murad is not the most common spelling — Brad is, with 62.8% against Murad's 0.86%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Murad is used

Across 2016–2025, Murad was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 51,705 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 100,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Murad around the world

Where Murad ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,153
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2020–2020
    #711
    in 2020
  • France
    1977–2025
    #6,149
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Murad by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,824
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 289
Best rank ever
#2,330
1977
Peak year
2016
56 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,133
Count in 2025
45

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Murad

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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