Murray

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Part of: Murray

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Murray is both a Scottish and an Irish surname with two distinct respective etymologies. The Scottish version is a common variation of the word Moray, an anglicisation of the Medieval Gaelic word Muireb ; the b here was pronounced as v, hence the Latinization to Moravia. These names denote the district on the south shore of the Moray Firth, in Scotland. Murray is a direct transliteration of how Scottish people pronounce the word Moray. The Murray spelling is not used for the geographical area, which is Moray, but it became the commonest form of the surname, especially among Scottish emigrants, to the extent that the surname Murray is now much more common than the original surname Moray. See also Clan Murray.

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Has list: list of people with the family name Murray
Different from: Murray criterion used: family name has to use a different item than disambiguation page
Native label: Murray
Script: Latin script
Soundex: M600
Cologne phonetics: 67
Caverphone: MR1111
Said to be the same as: Morrow
Language: English
Attested in: Finnish Population Information System

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8 identifiers linking Murray across the web's reference databases

BabelNet ID01357515n
Bing entity IDceb6859c-2f41-4ff2-a1af-9043145a7e6e
DFD ID24882
FactGrid item IDQ182214
Geneanet family name IDMURRAY
Géopatronyme IDMURRAY
MyHeritage Surname IDmurray
Wolfram Language entity codeEntity["Surname", "Murray"]

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