Mirtha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Mirtha

The Social Security Administration has registered 539 babies named Mirtha between 1948 and 2008, spanning 61 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mirtha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1972, when 21 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mirtha performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 129 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Mirtha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 50 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Mirtha in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mirtha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 539 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.