Murdock
Murdock was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 340 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Murdock by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Murdock?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,604, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 2016, the peak
Murdock peaked in 2016, when 13 boys were given it, #6,593 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #13,604 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,469 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,767 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,448 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,467 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,703 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,389 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,593 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,420 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,415 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #10,407 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,760 | 2.4 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,966 | 2.8 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,187 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,791 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,417 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,899 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,466 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,461 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,431 | 3.3 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,330 | 3.5 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,797 | 4.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,057 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,024 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,410 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,446 | 4.2 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,595 | 7.3 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,043 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,819 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,091 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,567 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,998 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,780 | 8.6 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,875 | 5.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,548 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,352 | 7.1 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,058 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,734 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,364 | 7.3 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,405 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,132 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,035 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,023 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,840 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,101 | 9.0 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,396 | 13.7 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,364 | 37.8 |
| 1892 | 7 | #923 | 57.4 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,109 | 45.0 |
| 1880 | 5 | #1,017 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Murdock a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Murdock has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Murdock: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Murdock, and how old are they?
An estimated 155 Americans named Murdock and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 240 people named Murdock (12 women and girls, 228 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 144 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Murdock
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Murdock and names like it
- Compare Murdock and TalmageBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMurdock peaked in 2016.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Murdock.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Murdock alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.