McMurdo Family Crest & Name History

McMurdo? Think of it as MacMurdo with a different pen. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “From Muireadhach ("mariner, lord")”. Before spelling was fixed, MacMurdo was also written McMurdo. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

According to the 2010 US Census, the McMurdo surname had 386 bearers.

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