girls:
63k births since 1880
#505 (91st percentile)
boys:
51 births since 1916
#4535 (1st percentile)
overall:
63.1k births since 1880
#931 (88th percentile)
The name Myra is the #931 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 63,079 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #505 (91.2% percentile) for all time with 63,028 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,535 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 51 births since 1916.
Myra has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1916 for boys).
The name Myra has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Myra reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 69.6% percentile (ranked #233) with 623 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 850 births per million (ranked 34.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Myra ranks #506 for girls (46.6% percentile) with 288 births per million, which is 33.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Myra reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #662) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Myra".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Myra. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Myra is pronounced as MAI-ruh, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M AY1 R AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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