Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2015. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Murari through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 22
- 22 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,290 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,290 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 146 as a first name in 2020; 172 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Murari’s family of names
In English usage, Murari has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form मुरारी.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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