girls:
94 births since 1913
#5622 (2nd percentile)
boys:
3.1k births since 1882
#2253 (51st percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1882
#4827 (38th percentile)
The name Murry is the #4,827 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,179 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 37.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,253 (50.9% percentile) for all time with 3,085 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,622 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 94 births since 1913.
Murry first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1913 for girls). Birth data for Murry is available in 108 out of the 140 years between 1882 and 2021 (108 years for boys and 15 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Murry has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Murry reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 17.2% percentile (ranked #428) with 98 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 122 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Murry reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #596) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1952.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Murry".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Murry is pronounced as MER-ee, which has 2 syllables.
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