girls:
33 births since 2013
#5683 (1st percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1893
#3578 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1893
#6691 (14th percentile)
The name Myer is the #6,691 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,048 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 13.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,578 (21.9% percentile) for all time with 1,015 births since 1893. For girls, it ranks #5,683 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 2013.
Myer first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (1893 for boys and 2013 for girls). Birth data for Myer is available in 65 out of the 131 years between 1893 and 2023 (65 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Myer has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 74.3% of babies named Myer were boys.
For boys, Myer reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 8.2% percentile (ranked #462) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 71 births per million (ranked 6.9% percentile). Despite a peak around 2019, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Myer ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 20.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Myer reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #943) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for girls has remained relatively stable. Currently, Myer is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #943 (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Myer".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Myer is pronounced as MAI-er, which has 2 syllables.
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