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)
The name Myrtle is the #542 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 136,975 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #292 (94.9% percentile) for all time with 136,477 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,088 (10.8% percentile) for all time with 498 births since 1880.
Myrtle has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Myrtle is available in 125 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (125 years for girls and 55 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 Myrtle has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Myrtle reached its peak popularity in 1901, achieving the 92.0% percentile (ranked #27) with 7,442 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 7,843 births per million (ranked 91.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Myrtle ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Myrtle reached its peak popularity in 1903, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #220) with 108 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 108 births per million (ranked 3.9% 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 "Myrtle".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Myrtle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.6% confident that Myrtle is pronounced as MER-tuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mertl, at 11.4% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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