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Murat

#9,434 in 2025Boys' name

Aim, wish

Murat has been given to 369 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #9,434 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Murat, 2025

1 in 414,000

Murat over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Murat: meaning, origin, and history

Aim, wish

Arabic

What Murat means

Murat means “aim, wish”, associated with murat.

Origin, language, and formation

Murat is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Murat comes through Arabic مُرَاد.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Murat is pronounced /muˈɾat/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 369 boys were recorded with the name Murat between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,260 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,282 in 2020 to #9,434 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,499 in 2015 to #9,434 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Murat?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,434
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Murat 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Murat. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Murats were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Murat was born before 2007 — so the typical Murat is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
369
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (109).

Is Murat 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
+1,142
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−152
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−935
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.1%
Peak was 2014 (17)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,260
1969

Spellings of Murat

Murat is not the most common spelling — Kurt is, with 56.4% against Murat's 0.24%.

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 Murat is used

Across 1910–2025, Murat was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Murat has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Murat around the world

Where Murat 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
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • France
    1971–2025
    #2,948
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2019
    #2,583
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1964–2000
    #556
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Murat by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,434
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 152
Best rank ever
#4,260
1969
Peak year
2014
17 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
369
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Murat

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

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Sibling names for Murat

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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