# Murad (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/murad/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,133 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,133 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 270, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مراد (murad), from Arabic مُرَاد (murād).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 4,177 |
| 2012 | 32 | 3,429 |
| 2013 | 31 | 3,467 |
| 2014 | 30 | 3,591 |
| 2015 | 20 | 4,838 |
| 2016 | 56 | 2,359 |
| 2017 | 37 | 3,171 |
| 2018 | 51 | 2,539 |
| 2019 | 41 | 2,974 |
| 2020 | 37 | 3,114 |
| 2021 | 37 | 3,223 |
| 2022 | 49 | 2,704 |
| 2023 | 46 | 2,788 |
| 2024 | 42 | 2,987 |
| 2025 | 45 | 2,825 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 2,194 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2013 | 15 | 1,539 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,459 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,004 |
| 2016 | 10 | 2,175 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,052 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,112 |
| 2019 | 15 | 1,587 |
| 2020 | 14 | 1,635 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 16 | 1,534 |
| 2023 | 15 | 1,610 |
| 2024 | 15 | 1,675 |
| 2025 | 25 | 1,153 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: مُرَاد
- Armenian: Մուրադ
- Chinese: 穆拉德
- Dutch: Murad
- French: Mourad
- Hindi: मुराद
- Korean: 무라드
- Turkish: Murat

## People named Murad

- Murad III, 12th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1574–1595)
- Murad V, 33th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876)
- Murad Bey, Egyptian noble (1750–1801)
- Murad Giray, Crimean Khan
- Murad Wilfried Hofmann, German diplomat
- Murad Mammadov, Azerbaijani amateur wrestler
- Murad Ebrahim, Filipino politician
- Sebastatsi Murad, Armenian fedayee (1874–1918)
- Murad Hüseynov, Azerbaijani footballer
- Murad I Bey, Bey of Tunis
- Murad Muwafi, Egyptian intelligence officer
- Murad Agayev, Azerbaijani footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.