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murray Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: regional name from Moray in northeastern Scotland, which is probably named with Old Celtic elements meaning ‘sea’ + ‘settlement’.
  2. Irish (southern Ulster): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muireadhaigh ‘descendant of Muireadhach’ (the name of several different families in various parts of Ireland), or a shortened form of McMurray.
  3. Irish: reduced form of MacIlmurray, Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhuire (see Gilmore).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of murray Families in the US in 1920
Number of murray families
 2006-4010
 669-2005		 1-668
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