Murphy
72
Babies in 2024
+350%
10-year change
2024
Peak · 72
+36%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Murphy
Murphy is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (72) are up 350% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Murphy reached its peak in 2024, when 72 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #535 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 72 represents 100% of the peak.
Across 27 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 571 boys have been officially registered with the name Murphy in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 377 boys were registered with the name, starting from 16 in 2014 and ending at 72 in 2024.