Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : topographic name from murgia ‘rock’.
- Italian (Sardinian) : nickname from Sardinian murgia ‘brine’ or murcia ‘marc (of olives)’, ‘dregs’ (compare Morga).
- Basque : habitational name from either of the two towns called Murgia, in Araba and Gipuzkoa provinces, Basque Country.