Murphy
How many real pets are named Murphy, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Murphy as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 904 pets are named Murphy: 844 dogs, 60 cats. Where sex was recorded, 15% are female and 85% male. It ranks #74 among dog names and #167 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Murphy
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 68
- Poodle: 26
- Pit Bull: 21
- Golden Retriever: 21
- Terrier: 20
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Murphy
- New York City: 476licensed
- Toronto: 178licensed
- Austin shelter: 87shelter
- Seattle: 69licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 25licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 24shelter
- Burnside (SA): 17licensed
- Zurich: 12licensed
- Richmond, VA: 12licensed
- Adelaide: 2licensed
- Prospect (SA): 2licensed
Murphy as a human name
This is the meaning of Murphy as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage. Root meaning: “descendant of Murrough”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Murphy
Dog names about as popular as Murphy
Murphy FAQ
How many pets are named Murphy?
In the public pet records we track, 904 pets are named Murphy: 844 dogs, 60 cats. Where sex was recorded, 15% are female and 85% male. It ranks #74 among dog names and #167 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Murphy?
Among dogs named Murphy in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); City of Prospect Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); Pet Licenses, City of Richmond; Animal Shelter Intake and Outcome, County of Sonoma; Austin Animal Center Outcomes (public domain). License records count registered pets; shelter records count animals that passed through a shelter (some names are given by staff). Pets that appear in several years of one dataset are counted once. Names are counted as written, so spelling variants are separate.