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Murry

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Murry has been given to 3,179 babies in the U.S. since 1882. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 94 recorded.

Babies named Murry, 2021

1 in 678,000

Murry over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Murry: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Murry means

Murry is a given name.

The naming story behind Murry

Wikidata records Murry as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q54914123, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,085 boys were recorded with the name Murry between 1882 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 94 in 1917; its best national rank was #540 in 1899.

In the United States, 94 girls were recorded with the name Murry between 1913 and 1952. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1927; its best national rank was #2,808 in 1927.

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.

How common is Murry?

Murry had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Murry 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Murry. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Murrys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Murry was born before 1933 — so the typical Murry is around 92 today.

Median birth year
1933
About 92 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.71%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
890
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (687).

Is Murry 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (94)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#540
1899

Spellings of Murry

Murry is not the most common spelling — Larry is, with 29.4% against Murry's 0.11%.

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 Murry is used

Across 1910–2025, Murry was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 62,448 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 11,111
  2. 2Alabama1 in 20,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 33,333
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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. Murry has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Murry around the world

Where Murry 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.

  • South Australia
    1960–1964
    #557
    in 1964

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Murry

People whose public names include Murry, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Murry in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Murry. Linked forms have their own page here.

Muiredach

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Murry by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#540
1899
Peak year
1917
94 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
3,085
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,808
1927
Peak year
1927
12 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1952
All-time count
94
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Murry

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

MuradMurphyBerryCurryMuratMurlMurrayGerryCorryMurelDerryDarryTorryMurielHenrryMurrelMurtazaMurleMurrellGarryThierryKerryKarryOrry

Names with a curve like Murry

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Murry, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

NorwoodRudolfVernieClovisNewellAudreyGarnettCloydOcieFurmanLambertThornton

Sibling names for Murry

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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