Murtha — unisex name

What the Data Says About Murtha

The Social Security Administration has registered 5 babies named Murtha between 1917 and 1917, spanning 1 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Murtha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1917. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 5 babies received it in a single year. Murtha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1918.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Murtha performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 5 births during that ten-year window.

No etymological entry is currently available for Murtha 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 5 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.