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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Indian (Karnataka) : Hindu name from Sanskrit mūrti ‘manifestation’, ‘image’. As a personal name, this appears to have evolved from the final element of compound names such as Ramamurthy ‘manifestation of Rama’ and Krishnamurthy ‘manifestation of Krishna’. It is only a given name in India, but has come to be used as a surname among South Indians in the U.S.

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