Murphy
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#754
up +62 places
2025 births
341
up +33 births
All-time births
8,486
4% of them in 2025
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2025
- 341 births
- Best rank
- #510
- in 1892
- First recorded
- 1881
- #839 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1977
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 140 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 2025341#754Peak
- 2024308#816
- 2022267#887
- 2023258#904
- 2020225#967
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #510 in 1892 · peak births 341 in 2025
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 64% boys■ 36% girls
8,486 boys · 4,688 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Murphy has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.