Murfey Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 1
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 8
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 13
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 3
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 3
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 3

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Murfey Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Murfey family

Profession Census Frequency
Labourer 2
Apprentice Cooper 1
Ag Lab 1
Apprentice 1
Silver Plater 1
Warehouseman 1
Trump 1
Coal Miner Miner Miner 1
Weaver 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Murfey

Name Census Frequency
John Murfey 17
Mary Murfey 16
James Murfey 11
Thomas Murfey 7
William Murfey 5
Catherine Murfey 4
Patrick Murfey 4
Sarah Murfey 4
Ann Murfey 3
Bridget Murfey 3
George Murfey 3
Margaret Murfey 3
Peter Murfey 3
Ellen Murfey 2
Hannah Murfey 2
Henry Murfey 2
Joseph Murfey 2
Lucy Murfey 2
Maggie Murfey 2
Nathan Murfey 2
Annie Murfey 1
Barney Murfey 1
Catharine Murfey 1
Daniel Murfey 1
Edmund Murfey 1

Murfey Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Murphy 67% 124,185
2 Murphey 71% 7,426
3 Morfey 83% 414
4 Murphie 43% 219
5 Murfy 83% 136
6 Murfey 100% 129

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The surname Murfey is the 6th most popular variant of Murphy.

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