Murry

Where Murry comes from

Murry hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #943 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1899
    Peak, #521
    14 babies named Murry — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1901
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,058.
  4. 1916
    Murry Dickson born
    American baseball player
  5. 1917
    Murry Wilson born
    American musician
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Murry Wilson · American musician, 1917–1973
  • Murry Dickson · American baseball player, 1916–1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.