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The MURAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 236 75938 0 1
United States (1880 census) 478 10032 0.001 10
Change since 1880 -242 -65906 +N/A -9
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MURAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 28 116637 0.000 1
New Jersey 22 74391 0.000 3
Michigan 18 89141 0.000 2
Florida 16 135669 0.000 1
Massachusetts 16 67561 0.000 3
Top States for MURAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 22 74391 0.000 3
Massachusetts 16 67561 0.000 3
Connecticut 8 84662 0.000 2
Michigan 18 89141 0.000 2
Utah 4 52525 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of MURAY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MURAY surname.

Ethnic distribution of MURAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 126 53.39
Black/African American 81 34.32
White (Hispanic) 23 9.75
Mixed Race 6 2.54
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

MURAY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of MURAY in historical publications

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

Similar names to MURAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MURAY.

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 MURAY

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