Definition of "Murray"

Murray

/ˈmʌɹi/

proper noun
countable and uncountable, plural Murrays
1. A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
  Quotations
  Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son / To beaten Douglas, and the Earls of Athol, / Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith.
  c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  Quotations
  Murray was the sort of name he might have expected his father to pick. Murray : not a family name, not a friend's name, not some old blowhard up in New Hampshire (his father's home state) who'd sat around in the general store playing checkers and sucking his teeth. Murray was a name you couldn't do anything with. Murr — what the hell kind of nickname was that? The kids in second and third grade had certainly seen the name's possibilities. With the appropriate swishes and vocal flutings, they called him "Mary".
  1992, Martha Grimes, The End of the Pier, page 151
3. A placename:
  1. A number of places in Australia:
    The Murray River, a major river in south-eastern Australia, flowing 2,589 km (1,609 mi) to the Indian Ocean, through New South Wales and Victoria, where it forms the border for hundreds of miles, to the sea through South Australia. Named after Sir George Murray.
    A suburb of the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
  2. A minor river in Stewart Island, New Zealand.
  3. A number of places in the United States:
    A census-designated place in the town of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
    An unincorporated community in Shoshone County, Idaho.
    An unincorporated community in Lancaster Township, Wells County, Indiana.
    A city, the county seat of Calloway County, Kentucky.
    A village in Cass County, Nebraska.
    A town in Orleans County, New York.
    A city in Salt Lake County, Utah.
    An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Utah.