Murt
surname · Latin script
Meaning: myrtle (Myrtus communis)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/muɾt/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Murt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 86K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 421K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 620Kfew records
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)
≈690 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)myrtle (Myrtus communis)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Murt 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Murt | 11 |
| IN India | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | 2 | Murt | 5 |
| US United States | 119 | 1 in 2.8M | 158 | Murt | 112 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 625K | — | Murt | 48 |
| ES Spain | 47 | 1 in 1.1M | 47 | — | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 41 | 1 in 421K | 41 | Murt | 8 |
| EE Estonia | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 86K | 12 | — | 4 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 319K | — | Murt | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)Murt is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from German Mord 'murder'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Scottish Gaelic, murder
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Dzīt, skubināt
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Josep Maria Oriol i Murtb. 1919ESSpanish composer (1919-1996)
- Sita Murtb. 1946ESfashion designer
- Tom Murtb. 1960USAmerican 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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 158 | #116,774 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 140 | #115,489 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 119 | #140,157 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 47 | #46,413 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 47 | #46,316 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 41 | #34,848 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 13 | #81,780 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 12 | #9,351 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 5 | #16,294 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Murt mean, and where does it come from?
- myrtle (Myrtus communis) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Murt?
- It depends on the language: in Turkish /muɾt/; in Spanish /muɾt/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Murt have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 689 people named Murt in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled murt.
- How common is the name Murt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 119 people named Murt in 2010, about 1 in 2.8 million 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/murtThe 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, “Murt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.