Myrtle

girls:

136.5k births since 1880

#292 (95th percentile)

boys:

498 births since 1880

#4088 (11th percentile)

overall:

137k births since 1880

#542 (93rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Myrtle".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
136,477
Peak Births
4,076
Peak Year
1901
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
92.0%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#27
Current Rank
#946
Female statistics
Total Births
498
Peak Births
22
Peak Year
1903
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
3.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#198
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Myrtle

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Myrtle. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 88.6% confident that Myrtle is pronounced as MER-tuhl. The next most likely pronunciation is mertl, at 11.4% confidence.

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88.6%
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11.4%
MER-tuhl (2 syllables)
Verified
88.6% confidence
M ER1 T AH0 L
mertl (1 syllable)
11.4% confidence
M ER1 T L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Myrtle. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Myrtle, please vote using the thumbs up button.

mahr-TEHL (2 syllables)
3 names 4.4k births
M AA0 R T EH1 L
MAHR-tehl (2 syllables)
3 names 4.4k births
M AA1 R T EH0 L

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M ER1 T AH0 L) 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.