girls:
463 births since 1913
#5253 (8th percentile)
boys:
45.2k births since 1880
#529 (88th percentile)
overall:
45.6k births since 1880
#1144 (85th percentile)
The name Myron is the #1,144 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 45,630 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 85.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #529 (88.5% percentile) for all time with 45,167 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,253 (8.1% percentile) for all time with 463 births since 1913.
Myron has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1913 for girls).
The name Myron has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Myron reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 65.1% percentile (ranked #182) with 636 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 636 births per million (ranked 65.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Myron ranks #836 for boys (8.2% percentile) with 44 births per million, which is 6.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Myron reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #582) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Myron".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Myron. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Myron is pronounced as MAI-ruhn, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M AY1 R AH0 N) 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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