Myrah
Myrah was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,430 among girls’ names; 786 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Myrah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Myrah?
#4,430 among girls’ names, 2025
Myrah fell from #3,517 in 2015 to #4,430 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.2 to 19.9 per million.
51 babies in 2016, the peak
Myrah peaked in 2016, when 51 girls were given it, #3,210 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,430 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,624 | 26.5 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,811 | 24.9 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,347 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,473 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,820 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,431 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,654 | 24.7 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,181 | 29.5 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,210 | 28.8 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #3,517 | 25.2 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,332 | 19.0 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,394 | 18.8 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,794 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,490 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,542 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,987 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,696 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,381 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,720 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,692 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,454 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,044 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,844 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,606 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,715 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,065 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,391 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,154 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,082 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,206 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,888 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,642 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,292 | 3.4 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,288 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Myrah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Myrah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Myrah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Myrah, and how old are they?
An estimated 777 Americans named Myrah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 606 people named Myrah (602 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 572 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Myrah?
Myrah is a less common spelling of Myra: SSA has recorded 786 Myrah and 63,967 Myra since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 85,190 babies since 1880, Myrah is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 1,411 babies (2.3%), the third 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 Myrah
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 Myrah and names like it
- Compare Myrah and MyraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMyrah peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Myrah since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Myrah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Myrah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.