Myrna
Myrna is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 134th, in 1938.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19381,801 births
- Best rank
- #134in 1938
- Since 1885
- 31,700people given the name
The story in the numbers
31,700 girls have been named Myrna in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1938, with 1,801 births — 0.16% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 1,801 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1941, and the 1930s alone account for 32%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Myrna | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 30 | |
| 1890s | 112 | |
| 1900s | 246 | |
| 1910s | 967 | |
| 1920s | 1,937 | |
| 1930s | 10,235 | |
| 1940s | 8,169 | |
| 1950s | 4,185 | |
| 1960s | 2,630 | |
| 1970s | 1,361 | |
| 1980s | 787 | |
| 1990s | 508 | |
| 2000s | 301 | |
| 2010s | 174 | |
| 2020s | 58 |
In 1938, its biggest year
Myrna was the 134th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1938 were Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Betty and Shirley. See all of 1938.
Names that rose and fell with Myrna
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Harlenepeak 1937
- Marylynpeak 1936
- Shirleypeak 1935
- Marlenepeak 1936
- Marlyspeak 1937
- Patsypeak 1941
- Patpeak 1941
- Claudettepeak 1935
Other spellings in the data
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.