Murdock

19,275 people in the United States were counted with the surname Murdock in the 2020 census, making it the 1,824th most common in the country. That is about one person in 15,500.

By the numbers

People: 19,275
Rank: 1,824th
How common: 1 in 15,500
Per 100,000: 6.5

Where the name comes from

Scottish surname, Anglicized from the Scottish Gaelic name Muireadhach (“mariner”), Murchadh (“sea-warrior”), Muircheartach (“sea-ruler”), all having as the first element of muir (“sea”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.4%
Black, not Hispanic 14.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Murdock

Ian Murdock (1973–2015)American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur
George Murdock (1897–1985)American anthropologist
George Murdock (1930–2012)American film actor
Margaret Murdock (born 1942)American sports shooter

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

Surnames like Murdock

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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.