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The MURPHEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,947 7762 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 6,694 902 0.013 134
Change since 1880 -2747 -6860 -0.012 -119
Other Countries
Australia 13 72221 0 1
United Kingdom 47 26320 0 1
Top States for MURPHEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 580 3960 0.003 28
California 347 8032 0.001 10
Georgia 250 3618 0.003 31
Florida 228 8577 0.001 14
Tennessee 170 4248 0.003 30
Top States for MURPHEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 120 2948 0.004 42
Idaho 48 4001 0.004 37
South Dakota 26 5329 0.003 34
Georgia 250 3618 0.003 31
Tennessee 170 4248 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of MURPHEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 178 4.51
White (Hispanic) 83 2.1
Mixed Race 60 1.52
Asian/Pacific 22 0.56
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.43
White (Caucasian) 3,587 90.88

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

Meaning of MURPHEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to MURPHEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MURPHEY.

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 MURPHEY

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