The MURDOCK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	19,041	1724	0.007	71
United States (1880 census)	5,751	1062	0.012	115
Change since 1880	+13290	-662	-0.005	-44
Other Countries
Australia	350	4521	0.002	21
United Kingdom	1,311	4200	0.003	29

Top States for MURDOCK by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,544	2067	0.005	46
Texas	1,263	1924	0.006	61
Florida	1,017	2018	0.006	64
North Carolina	930	1329	0.012	116
Utah	928	257	0.042	416
Top States for MURDOCK by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	928	257	0.042	416
Idaho	414	351	0.032	320
Wyoming	79	684	0.016	160
West Virginia	258	1059	0.014	143
Alabama	528	1381	0.012	119

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of MURDOCK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MURDOCK 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 MURDOCK 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 MURDOCK in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	314	1.65
Mixed Race	286	1.5
Native American/Alaskan	221	1.16
Asian/Pacific	76	0.4
White (Caucasian)	15,530	81.56
Black/African American	2,612	13.72

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

Similar names to MURDOCK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MURDOCK.

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.