girls:
2.4k births since 1884
#3530 (38th percentile)
boys:
703 births since 1903
#3884 (15th percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1884
#4874 (37th percentile)
The name Myrle is the #4,874 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,108 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 37.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,530 (38.2% percentile) for all time with 2,405 births since 1884. For boys, it ranks #3,884 (15.3% percentile) for all time with 703 births since 1903.
Myrle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for girls and 1903 for boys). Birth data for Myrle is available in 78 out of the 83 years between 1884 and 1966 (75 years for girls and 52 years for boys). 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 Myrle has been given predominantly to girls, with 77.4% of all recorded births being female. In 1966, 0.0% of babies named Myrle were girls.
For girls, Myrle reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 16.3% percentile (ranked #468) with 96 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 97 births per million (ranked 5.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1962.
For boys, Myrle reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #520) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 49 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1966.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Myrle".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Myrle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.6% confident that Myrle is pronounced as merl, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mihrl, at 11.4% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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