Murphee
Girl · MUR-fee · Irish
Murphee is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “descendant of the sea warrior”. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).
What does Murphee mean?
Irish: spelling of Murphy; from the surname O Murchadha
“descendant of the sea warrior”
From the Irish surname O Murchadha, 'descendant of Murchadh', a personal name meaning sea warrior.
- Say it
- MUR-fee
Meaning borrowed from Murphy. More on Wiktionary.
Is Murphee a girl's or a boy's name?
Murphee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Murphee in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,131among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Murphee, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. It first appears in the records in 2011.
2025 had the most girls named Murphee of any year since it first appeared, in 2011.
Half of all the girls named Murphee in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 878 girls in the US were given Murphee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #375, up from #7,131 for this spelling alone.
Murphee in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,131 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
Names like Murphee
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Other spellings of Murphee
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