as a Last Name
- 342,645
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Murphy
Meaning & Origins
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Murchadha ‘descendant of Murchadh’, a personal name composed of the elements muir ‘sea’ + cath ‘battle’, i.e. ‘sea-warrior’. This was an important family in Tyrone.
| 56th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 342,645
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- America Samoa
- has the most people named Murphy per capita
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