Murray

girls:

371 births since 1904

#5345 (6th percentile)

boys:

21.8k births since 1880

#776 (83rd percentile)

overall:

22.2k births since 1880

#1706 (78th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Murray".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
371
Peak Births
13
Peak Year
1924
First Recorded
1904
Peak Percentile
1.1%
Current Percentile
0.8%
Peak Rank
#349
Current Rank
#939
Female statistics
Total Births
21,809
Peak Births
628
Peak Year
1922
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
62.9%
Current Percentile
6.2%
Peak Rank
#174
Current Rank
#855
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Murray

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Murray. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 66.7% confident that Murray is pronounced as MER-ee. The next most likely pronunciation is MUH-ree, at 18.8% confidence.

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MER-ee (2 syllables)
Verified
66.7% confidence
M ER1 IY0
MUH-ree (2 syllables)
Verified
18.8% confidence
M AH1 R IY0
MER-ay (2 syllables)
14.6% confidence
M ER1 EY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Murray. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Murray, please vote using the thumbs up button.

MAH-ree (2 syllables)
11 names 558.8k births
M AA1 R IY0
mer-EE (2 syllables)
4 names 542.4k births
M ER0 IY1

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M ER1 IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.