girls:
72 births since 2013
#5644 (1st percentile)
boys:
631 births since 1913
#3955 (14th percentile)
overall:
703 births since 1913
#7036 (9th percentile)
The name Myers is the #7,036 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 703 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 9.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,955 (13.7% percentile) for all time with 631 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,644 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 72 births since 2013.
Myers first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 2013 for girls). Birth data for Myers is available in 63 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (63 years for boys and 11 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 Myers has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 80.0% of babies named Myers were boys.
For boys, Myers reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #884) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Myers is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #884 (3.0% percentile) with 17 births per million.
For girls, Myers reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #932) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Myers ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 91.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Myers".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Myers is pronounced as MAI-erz, which has 2 syllables.
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