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)
The name Murray is the #1,706 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,180 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 78.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #776 (83.1% percentile) for all time with 21,809 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,345 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 371 births since 1904.
Murray has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1904 for girls).
The name Murray has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 82.4% of babies named Murray were boys.
For boys, Murray reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 62.9% percentile (ranked #203) with 558 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 576 births per million (ranked 39.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Murray ranks #855 for boys (6.2% percentile) with 33 births per million, which is 5.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Murray reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #603) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 17 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Murray ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 43.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Murray".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Murray. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Murray is pronounced as MER-ee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MUH-ree, at 18.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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.
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