girls:
31.7k births since 1885
#793 (86th percentile)
boys:
42 births since 1934
#4544 (1st percentile)
overall:
31.7k births since 1885
#1427 (82nd percentile)
The name Myrna is the #1,427 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 31,733 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 81.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #793 (86.1% percentile) for all time with 31,691 births since 1885. For boys, it ranks #4,544 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 1934.
Myrna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for girls and 1934 for boys). Birth data for Myrna is available in 138 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (138 years for girls and 7 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 Myrna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Myrna reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 77.6% percentile (ranked #133) with 1,578 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 1,578 births per million (ranked 77.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Myrna ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 0.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Myrna reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #522) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1943.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Myrna".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Myrna is pronounced as MER-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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