Myrle
Myrle is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 638th, in 1897.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191598 births
- Best rank
- #638in 1897
- Since 1884
- 3,108people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,405 girls have been named Myrle in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 98 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 98 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Myrle is used for both sexes: 23% of its bearers are boys (703), most of them born around 1925.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1915, its biggest year
Myrle was the 667th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Myrle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Verdapeak 1918
- Myrlpeak 1916
- Eunapeak 1916
- Margueritepeak 1918
- Hildapeak 1921
- Beaulahpeak 1921
- Fernpeak 1918
- Hildegardepeak 1915
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.