Murry
Murry is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 540th, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191794 births
- Best rank
- #540in 1899
- Since 1882
- 3,179people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,085 boys have been named Murry in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 94 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 94 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 41 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 94 girls have also been given it, 3.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Murry | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | |
| 1890s | 75 | |
| 1900s | 95 | |
| 1910s | 493 | |
| 1920s | 687 | |
| 1930s | 458 | |
| 1940s | 377 | |
| 1950s | 393 | |
| 1960s | 242 | |
| 1970s | 119 | |
| 1980s | 79 | |
| 1990s | 35 | |
| 2000s | 11 | |
| 2010s | 6 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Murry was the 614th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Murry
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Harviepeak 1922
- Cecilpeak 1920
- Cyrilpeak 1916
- Loydpeak 1926
- Wilfridpeak 1922
- Ellwoodpeak 1918
- Merlpeak 1922
- Ottispeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.