Last Name MURPHY

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Sea-battler.

Origin	Scottish, Irish, Jewish, Greek, Native American, Celtic, Falkland, Austrian, Belgian, Zimbabwean

Rank	58 (2000 US census)	59 (1990 US census)

Count	300,501 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

85.05%, or 255576 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
11.03%, or 33145 total occurrences, as black,
0.43%, or 1292 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.65%, or 1953 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.29%, or 3876 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.54%, or 4628 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Shortest baby names

We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

Please, send us any information you may have about addition two character first names and especially ...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...