Myrtis
Myrtis is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 465th, in 1912.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1921216 births
- Best rank
- #465in 1912
- Since 1882
- 6,121people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,121 girls have been named Myrtis in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 216 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 216 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 63 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Myrtis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 59 | |
| 1890s | 202 | |
| 1900s | 428 | |
| 1910s | 1,203 | |
| 1920s | 1,612 | |
| 1930s | 1,083 | |
| 1940s | 753 | |
| 1950s | 500 | |
| 1960s | 187 | |
| 1970s | 66 | |
| 1980s | 28 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Myrtis was the 470th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Myrtis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ermapeak 1920
- Alberthapeak 1922
- Adellpeak 1921
- Albertapeak 1919
- Naomapeak 1924
- Corinepeak 1920
- Corenepeak 1922
- Irenepeak 1921
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.