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The murphy Surname

murphy Name Meaning and History

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Murchadha ‘descendant of Murchadh’, a personal name composed of the elements muir ‘sea’ + cath ‘battle’, i.e. ‘sea-warrior’. This was an important family in Tyrone.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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murphy Family Facts

Distribution of murphy Families in the US in 1920
Number of murphy families
 4422-8841
 1475-4421		 1-1474
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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