Gender-neutral · #397 in 2025

Murphy

Murphy: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#397
Born 2025
783
Peak year
2025

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Murphy per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 2025. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Murphy has been rising: its share of girls born has grown over the last 10 years. 2025 is its highest share on record.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 62% of children named Murphy were recorded as girls and 38% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.