Myrtle
Myrtle is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 27th, in 1894.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 19184,076 births
- Best rank
- #27in 1894
- Since 1880
- 136,478people given the name
The story in the numbers
136,478 girls have been named Myrtle in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 4,076 births — 0.35% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 4,076 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1917, and the 1910s alone account for 24%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 46 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Myrtle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 9,769 | |
| 1890s | 17,717 | |
| 1900s | 19,691 | |
| 1910s | 32,432 | |
| 1920s | 30,569 | |
| 1930s | 14,134 | |
| 1940s | 7,274 | |
| 1950s | 3,106 | |
| 1960s | 1,166 | |
| 1970s | 356 | |
| 1980s | 153 | |
| 1990s | 62 | |
| 2000s | 6 | |
| 2010s | 31 | |
| 2020s | 12 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Myrtle was the 62nd 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 Myrtle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Pearlpeak 1918
- Orphapeak 1917
- Artiepeak 1916
- Blanchepeak 1917
- Zulapeak 1922
- Oniepeak 1918
- Ludiepeak 1916
- Hesterpeak 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.