McMurray

McMurray is the 3,652nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,479 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 31,500.

By the numbers

People: 9,479
Rank: 3,652nd
How common: 1 in 31,500
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Muireadhaigh (“son of the seafarer”). Compare Murdock.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname McMurray described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.1%
Black, not Hispanic 11.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called McMurray

Sam McMurray (born 1952)American actor
Jamie McMurray (born 1976)American racing driver

People named McMurray with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like McMurray

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.