Murdoch Family History
Murdoch Name Meaning
Scottish: from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal names
Muire(adh)ach, a derivative of muir ‘sea’ (hence the
usual translation as ‘mariner’) and Murchadh ‘sea
battler’. These may originally have been patronymics, the prefix
Mac having been dropped at a later stage.Irish (Ulster):
when not of Scottish origin, a variant of Murtagh.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Murdoch Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Murdoch families
 19 - 36  7 - 18 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Murdoch families
|
57 - 112 20 - 56 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Murdoch families
|
740 - 1,477 247 - 739 |
1 - 246 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Murdoch Family Origin
Murdoch Immigration Information
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Murdoch Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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