Murcía
surname · Latin script
Murcía is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Unclear. Has been derived from myrtus (“myrtle”), from murcus or from Ancient Greek μύρκος (múrkos, “dumb”).
- 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)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Murcia in ES Spain, CO Colombia.
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)
Unclear. Has been derived from myrtus (“myrtle”), from murcus or from Ancient Greek μύρκος (múrkos, “dumb”).
Sources 6
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Murcía 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Murcía mean, and where does it come from?
- Unclear. Has been derived from myrtus (“myrtle”), from murcus or from Ancient Greek μύρκος (múrkos, “dumb”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Murcía have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Murcía in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled murcia.
- How common is the name Murcía?
- In Spain, the national register counted 10,120 people named Murcía, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/murc%C3%ADaThe 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, “Murcía”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.