Myer
Myer is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 26 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,606 among girls’ names and #4,106 among boys’, #7,372 among all names counting both); 1,119 Americans have been recorded with it since 1893 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Myer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Myer mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Myer is “a male given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “physician” (mire).
As an English surname of Norman/French origin, from the archaic noun mire (“physician”). Compare Mee, Mayer.
As an English topographic surname, from mire (“marsh”), from Old Norse mýrr.
As a German surname, Americanized from Meyer, Mayer, Maier.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Myer?
#4,106 among boys’ names, 2025
Myer fell from #3,841 in 2015 to #4,106 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 14.6 to 15.2 per million.
48 babies in 1918, the peak
Myer peaked in 1918, when 48 boys were given it, #971 among boys’ names. The 34 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 71% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,106 | 15.2 |
| 2024 | 31 | #3,662 | 18.0 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,080 | 15.8 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,803 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,231 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,372 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,070 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,228 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,190 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,716 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,841 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,996 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,270 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,184 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,931 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,649 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,475 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,547 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,990 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,347 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,954 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,607 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,246 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,766 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,696 | 2.5 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,731 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,704 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,331 | 3.5 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,038 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,209 | 3.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,093 | 2.7 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,847 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,358 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,820 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,825 | 7.5 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,162 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,000 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,643 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,728 | 9.1 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,902 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,019 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,101 | 14.2 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,384 | 11.7 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,149 | 13.4 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,945 | 15.9 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,735 | 19.2 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,210 | 13.8 |
| 1921 | 20 | #1,806 | 18.2 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,630 | 21.6 |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,340 | 29.6 |
| 1918 | 48 | #971 | 47.4 |
| 1917 | 45 | #977 | 48.6 |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,153 | 37.1 |
| 1915 | 46 | #922 | 54.2 |
| 1914 | 39 | #877 | 59.6 |
| 1913 | 34 | #828 | 66.3 |
| 1912 | 32 | #776 | 74.4 |
| 1911 | 17 | #810 | 75.2 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,277 | 41.2 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,002 | 61.0 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,316 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #977 | 61.3 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,365 | 37.6 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,055 | 52.9 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,343 | 39.0 |
| 1898 | 7 | #961 | 57.1 |
| 1893 | 6 | #993 | 53.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Myer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,119 Americans recorded as Myer, 4% are girls and 96% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Myer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Myer, and how old are they?
An estimated 507 Americans named Myer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 528 people named Myer (57 women and girls, 471 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 362 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Myer born?
The states with the most babies named Myer are Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 126 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 69 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Myer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Myer is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1910 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Myer with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,017 babies since 1880, Myer is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 153 babies (22%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Myer
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Myer and names like it
- Compare Myer and MirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMyer peaked in 1918.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Myer since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Myer.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Myer alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.