Gender-neutral · #2604 in 2025

Murray

Murray: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#2604
Born 2025
50
Peak year
1911

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Murray per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 1911. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Murray has held steady: its share of boys born has barely moved over the last 10 years. It now stands at 5% of its 1911 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 14% of children named Murray were recorded as girls and 86% 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.