Myer
Myer is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 31 births. Its best rank was 776th, in 1912.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 310.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191848 births
- Best rank
- #776in 1912
- Since 1893
- 1,085people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,047 boys have been named Myer in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 48 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1910s alone account for 32%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 38 girls have also been given it, 3.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Myer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 13 | |
| 1900s | 42 | |
| 1910s | 331 | |
| 1920s | 166 | |
| 1930s | 41 | |
| 1940s | 23 | |
| 1950s | 18 | |
| 1970s | 5 | |
| 1990s | 10 | |
| 2000s | 73 | |
| 2010s | 209 | |
| 2020s | 116 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Myer was the 971st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Myer
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hymanpeak 1916
- Sigmundpeak 1918
- Meyerpeak 1917
- Isidorepeak 1919
- Isadorepeak 1916
- Busterpeak 1918
- Casimerpeak 1918
- Sylvanpeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.