Murphy — #814 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Murphy

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,144 babies named Murphy between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Murphy currently holds the #814 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 307 babies received it in a single year. Murphy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,900 additional births since 1898.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Murphy performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,331 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Murphy shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 1,475 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Murphy in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Murphy in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 8,144 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.