Murcia
loc · Latin script
Meaning: chaoine ‘descendant of the devotee of (St) Caoine’ (see Cain)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/muɾθja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Murcia is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 4.9K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Murcía in SV El Salvador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
chaoine ‘descendant of the devotee of (St) Caoine’ (see Cain). regional name from the province of this name in SE Spain, apparently so called from L (aqua) murcida stagnant water. Alternatively, it may derive from L Murcia, Murtia, the name of an obscure Roman or Italic goddess, later used as an epithet of Venus, as if from myrta, murta myr¬ tle.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Murcia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 23 | Murcia | 137 |
| ES Spain | 10,120 | 1 in 4.9K | 10K | Murcia | 143 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Murcía | 41 |
| US United States | 2,563 | 1 in 130K | 3.1K | — | 226 |
| FR France | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 188 | — | 3 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1,541 | 1 in 3.3K | 1.5K | — | 28 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Murcia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, habitational name from the city so named.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Spanish, Murcia (an autonomous community and province in southeast Spain)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, prov & town, Spain
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, An autonomous community and province in southeast Spain.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, a surname of Venus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gilberto Aristizábalb. 1940COnot in their usual nameColombian football referee (1940–2016)
- Félix Murciab. 1945ESSpanish art director
- Eduardo Pimentelb. 1961COnot in their usual nameColombian football player, coach, and sports official
- José Murciab. 1964ESSpanish football manager
- Rosario Murcia-Gangloffb. 1964FRFrench para athletics competitor
- Fran Murciab. 1970ESSpanish basketball player (born 1970)
- Venancio Joséb. 1976ESnot in their usual nameSpanish athletics competitor
- María Torres Murciab. 2002COColombian tennis player
- Juan Silvio Heras MurciaESSpanish politician
- Francisco Cano MurciaESSpanish politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 10K | #551 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10K | #551 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.1K | #10,072 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #12,156 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1.5K | #397 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,540 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 307 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 204 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 194 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 188 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 109 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 75 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Murcia come from?
- chaoine ‘descendant of the devotee of (St) Caoine’ (see Cain). regional name from the province of this name in SE Spain, apparently so called from L (aqua) murcida stagnant water. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Murcia?
- A machine transcription gives /muɾθja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Murcia mean?
- Recorded meaning: chaoine ‘descendant of the devotee of (St) Caoine’ (see Cain).
- In which country does Murcia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Murcia in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled murcia.
- How common is the name Murcia?
- In Spain, the national register counted 10,120 people named Murcia, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/murciaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Murcia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.