Murphy

Murphy (/ˈmɜːrfi/) is an Irish surname.
The surname is a variant of two Irish surnames: Ó Murchadha/Ó Murchadh (descendant of Murchadh), and Mac Murchaidh/Mac Murchadh (son of Murchadh) derived from the Irish personal name Murchadh, which meant sea-warrior or sea-battler. (Muir meaning sea and cath meaning battle).
It is said of Murrough (Murchadh) as he entered the thick of the fight and prepared to assail the foreign invaders, the Danes, when they had repulsed the Dal-Cais, that 'he was seized with a boiling terrible anger, an excessive elevation and greatness of spirit and mind. A bird of valour and championship rose in him, and fluttered over his head and on his breath.
In modern Irish, Ó Murchú, rather than Ó Murchadha, is used.
Murphy is the most common surname in Ireland, the fourteenth most common surname in Northern Ireland, the second most common surname in Canada and the fifty-eighth most common surname in the United States. The last name Murphy is also what Irish travellers called themselves when people asked for names.

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Gaelic Murchadh "sea-warrior." The Celtic "sea" element is also in names Muriel (q.v.), Murdoch (Old Irish Muireadhach, Old Welsh Mordoc "mariner"), etc. Murphy bed (1925) is named for U.S. inventor William Lawrence Murphy (1876-1959). By happy coincidence, Murphy was an illiterate 18c.-19c. perversion of Morpheus, god of sleep.

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Anglicized form of the Gaelic Murchadh: sea warrior.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Brittany Murphy	1977	American actress
2	Eddie Murphy	1961	American stand-up comedian, actor, and singer
3	Cillian Murphy	1976	Irish actor
4	Audie Murphy	1925	U.S. soldier and actor
5	Michael P. Murphy	1976	United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
6	Bobby Murphy	1989	American businessman
7	Nicole Mitchell Murphy	1968	American model
8	Buddy Murphy	1988	Australian professional wrestler
9	Daniel Murphy	1985	American baseball player
10	Charlie Murphy	1988	Irish actress
11	Donna Murphy	1959	American actress, singer
12	Róisín Murphy	1973	Irish singer-songwriter
13	Daryl Murphy	1983	Irish footballer
14	Sheree Murphy	1975	Actress
15	Ben Murphy	1942	American actor
16	Dale Murphy	1956	American baseball player
17	Chet Faker	1988	Australian singer
18	Stephen Murphy	1957
19	Calvin Murphy	1948	American basketball player
20	Annie Murphy	1986
21	Timothy V. Murphy	1960	Irish actor
22	Robert Murphy	1982	Australian rules footballer
23	Carolyn Murphy	1973	American model
24	Matt Murphy	1927	American blues guitarist
25	Jacob Murphy	1995	English footballer
26	Murphy Jensen	1968	US tennis player
27	Diane Murphy	1964	American actress
28	George Murphy	1902	American actor and politician
29	Joseph Murphy	1898	American writer
30	Eric Murphy		Fictional character on Entourage
31	David Murphy	1981	Major League Baseball left fielder in the Cleveland Indians organization
32	Anna Murphy	1989	Musician
33	Murphy Lee	1978	American rapper
34	Josh Murphy	1995	English footballer
35	Jennifer Murphy	1979	American beauty pageant queen, reality television contestant and business woman
36	Connor Murphy	1993	American ice hockey defenseman
37	Emily Murphy	1868	Canadian judge
38	Clayton Murphy	1995	American middle-distance runner
39	Frank Murphy	1890	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
40	Kelly Murphy	1989	American volleyball player
41	Jim Murphy	1967	British politician
42	Walter Murphy	1952	American musician
43	Murphy Dunne	1942	American actor and musician
44	Jamie Murphy	1989	Footballer
45	Mary Murphy	1931	American actress
46	Stephanie Murphy	1978	Vietnamese-American business consultant, politician
47	Troy Murphy	1980	American professional basketball player
48	Rosemary Murphy	1927	American actress
49	Michael O'kane	1981	Ballymena's Fattest & ugliest man
50	Rex Murphy	1947	Canadian journalist
51	Erik Murphy	1990	American-Finnish basketball player
52	Jimmy Murphy	1910	Welsh footballer
53	Gillian Murphy	1979	American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer
54	David Lee Murphy	1959	American musician
55	Timothy Patrick Murphy	1959	American actor
56	J. R. Murphy	1991	Major League Baseball catcher
57	Lenny Murphy	1952	Irish gang leader
58	Lawrence Murphy	1831	Irish-American mobster
59	Mark Murphy	1932	American singer
60	Timothy F. Murphy	1952	American politician
61	Larry Murphy	1961	Canadian ice hockey defenceman
62	Trent Murphy	1990	Player of American football
63	Timothy Murphy	1751	Sniper in the American Revolutionary War
64	Bridey Murphy
65	Luke Murphy	1989	Footballer
66	Tyler Murphy	1992	American football player, wide receiver, quarterback
67	Don Murphy	1965	American film producer
68	Lauren Taylor	1983	American martial artist
69	James Murphy	1967	American guitarist
70	Thomas Murphy	1925	American broadcast executive
71	Louis Murphy	1987	American football player, wide receiver
72	Eoghan Murphy	1982	Irish politician
73	Rhys Murphy	1990	Footballer
74	Paul Murphy	1983	Irish politician
75	Campion Murphy	1962	American actor
76	Alan Murphy	1953	British musician
77	Jack Roland Murphy	1938	Surfing champion, musician, author, artist, and convicted murderer, who was involved in the biggest jewel heist in American history
78	Brian Murphy	1983	Irish footballer, geboren 1983
79	Dervla Murphy	1931	Irish touring cyclist and writer
80	Marc Murphy	1987	Australian rules footballer
81	Conor Murphy	1963	Irish republican politician
82	Warren Murphy	1933	American author, most famous as the co-creator of The Destroyer series
83	Jordan Murphy		British actor
84	Robert P. Murphy	1976	American economist
85	Jill Murphy	1949	UK children's writer
86	Annalise Murphy	1990	Irish yacht racer
87	Greg Murphy	1972	New Zealand racing driver
88	Matthew Murphy	1984	British musician
89	Jordi Murphy	1991	Rugby player
90	Dan Murphy	1962	American musician
91	Sean Murphy	1980	American animator and comic book artist
92	Gerard Murphy	1955	Irish actor
93	Geordan Murphy	1978	Irish rugby union player
94	Glen Murphy	1957	British actor
95	Jackson Murphy	1998	Film reviewer
96	Geoff Murphy	1946	New Zealand filmmaker
97	Thomas Francis Murphy		American actor
98	Elliott Murphy	1949	American singer-songwriter
99	Liam Murphy
100	Ryan Murphy	1993	Canadian ice hockey defenceman
101	Declan Murphy
102	Murphy Anderson	1926	Comic artist
103	Katy Murphy	1963	Scottish actress
104	Lionel Murphy	1922	Australian politician
105	Maureen Murphy		Australian actress
106	Marcus Murphy	1991	American American football player
107	James Ford Murphy		Animator
108	Murphy Karges	1967	American musician
109	Yo Murphy	1971	Gridiron football player and coach
110	Mic Murphy	1958	American musician
111	Dennis Murphy	1946	American journalist
112	Skull Murphy	1930	Professional wrestler
113	Jake Murphy	1989	Player of American football
114	Cathy Murphy	1967	British actress
115	Murphy Troy	1989	US volleyball player
116	Charles Francis Murphy	1858	American politician
117	Joe Murphy	1967	Canadian ice hockey player
118	Graeme Murphy	1950	Australian ballet choreographer
119	Shawn Murphy	1982	Player of American football
120	Catherine Murphy		English counterfeiter
121	Colin Murphy	1951	Irish comedian
122	Colm Murphy	1952	Irish businessman
123	Alex Murphy	1939	English rugby league footballer, and coach
124	Lennon Murphy	1982	American musician
125	Kathleen Murphy		American businesswoman
126	John Benjamin Murphy	1857	American surgeon
127	Kevin M. Murphy	1958	American economist
128	Tim Murphy	1956	American football player and coach
129	Bob Murphy	1943	American golfer, PGA Tour member, U.S. Amateur champion, NCAA individual champion
130	Kyle Murphy	1993
131	Robert Daniel Murphy	1894	American diplomat
132	Philip D. Murphy	1957	American businessman and diplomat
133	Terry Murphy	1948	American actress
134	Justin Murphy	1976	Australian rules footballer
135	Nick Murphy		Film director, television director
136	Jack Murphy	1988	American baseball player
137	Erin Murphy	1960	American politician
138	Ralph Murphy	1944	Canadian musician
139	Evelyn Murphy	1940	Massachusetts politician
140	Diana E. Murphy	1934	American judge
141	Tadhg Murphy	1956	Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer
142	Johnny Murphy	1908	American baseball player and coach
143	John Murphy	1950	Loyalist gangster from Belfast, Northern Ireland
144	Nancey Murphy	1951	American philosopher and theologian
145	Patrick Murphy		American pilot
146	Dwayne Murphy	1955	American baseball player and coach
147	William P. Murphy	1892	American scientist
148	Dara Murphy	1969	Irish politician
149	Rose Murphy	1913	American jazz pianist and singer
150	Gardner Murphy	1895	American psychologist
151	Isaac Burns	1861	American jockey
152	Richard Murphy	1927	Irish poet
153	Scott Murphy	1954	Game designer
154	CM Murphy	1954	Music executive
155	Kim Murphy	1974	American actress
156	Tom Murphy	1991	Baseball player
157	Tab Murphy		American screenwriter
158	Turk Murphy	1915	American musician
159	James Anthony Murphy	1894	American racing driver
160	Gord Murphy	1967	Canadian ice hockey player
161	Mike Murphy	1951	Sports radio personality
162	William Murphy	1921	American actor
163	Anthony Murphy	1956	British painter
164	John M. Murphy	1926	American politician
165	Raymond G. Murphy	1930	United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
166	Steve Murphy	1960	Canadian journalist
167	Murphy Guyer	1952	Actor and writer
168	C. E. Murphy	1973	American writer
169	Michael Murphy		Irish journalist, newsreader, psychoanalyst and author
170	Dick Murphy	1942	American mayor and judge
171	Patrick V. Murphy	1920	American police chief
172	Jay Murphy	1962	American basketball player
173	William Martin Murphy	1844	Irish politician
174	Murphy Ijemba		Nigerian radio personality
175	Delia Murphy	1902	Irish singer
176	Cullen Murphy	1952	American writer and editor
177	James Vincent Murphy	1880	Irish priest, translator, writer
178	Neil Murphy	1980	English footballer
179	Shaun Murphy	1970	Soccer player
180	Danny Murphy	1955	American actor
181	Amanda Murphy	1970	Florida State Representative
182	Gregg Murphy		American sports journalist
183	Chris Murphy	1976	Australian singer
184	Harold Murphy	1938
185	Aaron James Murphy	1992	New Zealand actor
186	Dwain Murphy	1985	Canadian actor
187	Jon Murphy	1977
188	Murphy J. Foster	1930	American politician
189	Kevin Murphy	1947	Musician
190	Ms Murphy	1981	Australian musician
191	Timothy P. Murphy		American law enforcement officer, FBI deputy director
192	Myles Murphy	1927	British painter
193	Ian Murphy	1978	Journalist, satirist
194	Stretch Murphy	1907	American basketball player
195	Pat Murphy	1955	An award-winning American author of science fiction and fantasy novels
196	Peter Murphy	1980	Irish footballer
197	Isaac Murphy	1799	American politician
198	Spud Murphy	1908	American musician