as a Last Name
- 3,599
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Murchison
Meaning & Origins
Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form (in which the Gaelic patronymic prefix Mac has been translated into the English patronymic suffix -son), of Gaelic Mac Mhurchaidh, a patronymic from the personal name Murchadh, composed of the elements muir ‘sea’ + cath ‘battle’, hence ‘sea warrior’.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,599
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Murchison per capita
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