Murry
Masculine · “the sea settlement”
Murry is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 3,085 boys against 94 girls since 1880.
Murry is a Scottish province written the way Scots says it. Moray is a stretch of the north-east coast, it was a kingdom before it was a province and a rebellion for most of the time it was either, and the family that took its name became one of the largest in Scotland.
How old is the name Murry?
Murry first appears in US birth records in 1882 — 143 years ago. The typical Murry alive today was born around 1934, making them about 91 years old. About 1,000 people named Murry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Murry most popular?
Murry peaked in 1899, reaching #521 nationally. See the whole 1899 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Moray to Murry
The story of Murry
The men of Moray were the crown's problem for three centuries. The province had its own line of rulers who claimed the Scottish throne with some justice — Macbeth was one of them — and it rose against the kings in Edinburgh again and again until the earldom was finally broken up and redistributed. The surname spread from the province across Scotland and then across the world, and in America it moved to the front of the name in the nineteenth century. The u spelling records the Scots pronunciation, which has a short vowel where the standard spelling suggests a long one.
Meaningscholars disagree
the sea settlement
The province name is generally read as a Celtic compound about a settlement by the sea, though the elements are reconstructed. The surname is straightforwardly locative: it means a family from there.
How the name formed
- Moray
- Murray
- Murry
Pronouncing Murry
MUR-ee
Two syllables with the weight at the front, the first rhyming with fur. Murray and Murry are said identically.
Nicknames for Murry
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1882
- Most boys named
- 191871 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #521reached in 1899
- Change vs 2003
- 0.0%5 in 2021, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Murrys among us
people named Murry are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Murry sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is said correctly at sight by anyone who has met the commoner spelling.
- It works as a surname and as a first name, which suits families that use both.
- The place behind it is real, mapped and has a documented history of a thousand years.
- Murray is the standard spelling and will be written instead.
- The spelling is recorded for girls as well as boys in the United States.
- It reads as a name of the late nineteenth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Murrys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Murry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Murry in 2025?
- Murry is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Murry will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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