Murray is a distinctive choice, ranked #1282 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Murray in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#1282
About the Name Murray
Murray is climbing rapidly up the charts, having climbed 543 places in just five years. Its best recorded rank was #471 in 1997 â and current momentum suggests it could challenge that mark again. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Murray is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school â standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Murray
Unlikely. With around 21 UK babies named Murray per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Murray in his class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Murray is currently rising in popularity in the UK, up 543 places over the last five years to #1282 in 2024. If this trend continues, it will become more common in classrooms over the next decade.
Murray is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Murray include: Conrad Murray â Conrad Robert Murray is a Grenadian-born American former physician convicted for his role in the death of American singer and dancer Michael Jackson.; Luke Murray â Luke Murray is an American college basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach for the UConn Huskies men's basketball team and in March 2026 was hired....
Murray does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice â your child is unlikely to encounter American Murrays in the wild.
21
UK babies named Murray (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↑ 543 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Murray
Likely around 1 other Murray in the class
UK Popularity (1996–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Murray
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Conrad Robert Murray is a Grenadian-born American former physician convicted for his role in the death of American singer and dancer Michael Jackson. He was the personal doctor of Jackson on the day of his death in 2009.
Fanny Murray, nÊe Fanny Rudman and later Fanny Ross, was an 18th-century English courtesan, mistress to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich and dedicatee of the fateful Essay on Woman that led to the downfall of John Wilkes. A contemporary of Kitty Fisher and Charlotte Hayes, the "celebrated Fanny Murray" was one of the most prominent courtesans of her day; a celebrity and fashion leader who rose from destitution to wealth and fame, before settling down into a life of "respectable prosperity".
Judith Sargent Stevens Murray was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essay writer, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American proponents of the idea of the equality of the sexes so that women, like men, had the capability of intellectual accomplishment and should be able to achieve economic independence.
Luke Murray is an American college basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach for the UConn Huskies men's basketball team and in March 2026 was hired as the next head coach at Boston College.
Murray Bernthal was an American musician and producer long active in Syracuse, New York. He was a violin prodigy and a Syracuse University basketball player.
Murray Handwerker was an American businessman who expanded Nathan's Famous, a fast food restaurant specializing in hot dogs, from a family-owned hot dog stand to a nationally franchised chain. The original Nathan's Famous hot dog stand was opened in Coney Island, Brooklyn, by Handwerker's father, Nathan Handwerker, in 1916.