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The MCMURTRY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,494 11564 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 68 41230 0 1
Change since 1880 +2426 +29666 +N/A +8
Other Countries
Australia 58 22475 0 4
United Kingdom 286 13118 0.001 6
Top States for MCMURTRY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 300 2682 0.005 53
California 275 9657 0.001 8
Texas 174 10163 0.001 8
Illinois 128 10402 0.001 10
Florida 119 14774 0.001 7
Top States for MCMURTRY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 300 2682 0.005 53
Nebraska 49 5478 0.003 29
Oklahoma 85 5102 0.002 25
Mississippi 62 4553 0.002 22
Kentucky 74 5623 0.002 18

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MCMURTRY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MCMURTRY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MCMURTRY in Tennessee than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MCMURTRY by picking someone at random in Tennessee than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MCMURTRY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MCMURTRY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MCMURTRY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MCMURTRY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 375 15.04
White (Hispanic) 49 1.96
Mixed Race 41 1.64
White (Caucasian) 2,005 80.39
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MCMURTRY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MCMURTRY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MCMURTRY.

Similar names to MCMURTRY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCMURTRY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MCMURTRY

The following words are slight variants of MCMURTRY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.