Myrtice
Myrtice is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 534th, in 1907.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1918152 births
- Best rank
- #534in 1907
- Since 1881
- 4,342people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,342 girls have been named Myrtice in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 152 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 152 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 30%. It has spent 48 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Myrtice | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 44 | |
| 1890s | 144 | |
| 1900s | 303 | |
| 1910s | 1,000 | |
| 1920s | 1,309 | |
| 1930s | 746 | |
| 1940s | 423 | |
| 1950s | 256 | |
| 1960s | 100 | |
| 1970s | 12 | |
| 1980s | 5 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Myrtice was the 580th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Myrtice
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Paulinepeak 1918
- Ermapeak 1920
- Marionpeak 1924
- Helenpeak 1918
- Adellpeak 1921
- Myrtispeak 1921
- Velmapeak 1921
- Naomapeak 1924
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.