Myrl
Myrl was last recorded in 1972, when 5 babies were given it; 3,092 Americans have been recorded with it between 1887 and 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Myrl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Myrl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,603, in 1956; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
128 babies in 1916, the peak
Myrl peaked in 1916, when 128 babies were given it (84 girls, #742 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,510 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 6 | #4,745 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 6 | #4,263 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 5 | #4,344 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 7 | #3,507 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 12 | #2,468 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 15 | #2,209 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 6 | #3,932 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 12 | #2,499 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 12 | #2,463 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | under 5 | 13 | #2,346 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,603 | 15 | #2,146 |
| 1955 | under 5 | 11 | #2,514 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 7 | #3,367 | |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,143 | 13 | #2,254 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,719 | 8 | #3,026 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,273 | 11 | #2,457 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,867 | 13 | #2,170 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,132 | 11 | #2,416 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,085 | 23 | #1,546 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,623 | 14 | #2,141 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,702 | 21 | #1,588 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,309 | 16 | #1,742 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,898 | 14 | #1,946 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,057 | 21 | #1,561 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,176 | 18 | #1,716 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,159 | 19 | #1,625 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,181 | 25 | #1,356 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,698 | 28 | #1,261 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,191 | 29 | #1,239 |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,526 | 35 | #1,116 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,781 | 22 | #1,447 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,826 | 26 | #1,344 |
| 1934 | 34 | #1,230 | 24 | #1,415 |
| 1933 | 29 | #1,351 | 26 | #1,326 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,478 | 20 | #1,631 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,413 | 20 | #1,626 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,423 | 23 | #1,554 |
| 1929 | 46 | #1,089 | 28 | #1,368 |
| 1928 | 41 | #1,200 | 39 | #1,140 |
| 1927 | 54 | #1,050 | 25 | #1,544 |
| 1926 | 42 | #1,192 | 28 | #1,396 |
| 1925 | 56 | #1,006 | 26 | #1,484 |
| 1924 | 67 | #933 | 43 | #1,104 |
| 1923 | 62 | #938 | 36 | #1,206 |
| 1922 | 62 | #948 | 29 | #1,385 |
| 1921 | 53 | #1,040 | 43 | #1,083 |
| 1920 | 84 | #790 | 39 | #1,151 |
| 1919 | 53 | #994 | 36 | #1,185 |
| 1918 | 74 | #837 | 39 | #1,104 |
| 1917 | 58 | #913 | 37 | #1,104 |
| 1916 | 84 | #742 | 44 | #971 |
| 1915 | 51 | #932 | 37 | #1,064 |
| 1914 | 42 | #914 | 17 | #1,531 |
| 1913 | 42 | #818 | 20 | #1,168 |
| 1912 | 33 | #884 | 14 | #1,327 |
| 1911 | 27 | #835 | 5 | #1,924 |
| 1910 | 23 | #909 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 25 | #827 | 8 | #1,133 |
| 1908 | 23 | #822 | 7 | #1,183 |
| 1907 | 19 | #890 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 23 | #770 | 9 | #901 |
| 1905 | 27 | #693 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 15 | #958 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 19 | #803 | 6 | #1,091 |
| 1902 | 19 | #812 | 7 | #995 |
| 1901 | 17 | #818 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 25 | #740 | 5 | #1,436 |
| 1899 | 24 | #637 | 6 | #1,013 |
| 1898 | 18 | #811 | 5 | #1,247 |
| 1897 | 14 | #886 | 5 | #1,176 |
| 1896 | 16 | #832 | 6 | #1,064 |
| 1895 | 15 | #853 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 12 | #936 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,067 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 20 | #657 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,177 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 9 | #985 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,422 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,242 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,253 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Myrl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,092 Americans recorded as Myrl, 59% are girls and 41% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Myrl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Myrl, and how old are they?
An estimated 393 Americans named Myrl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (13% of everyone recorded); the median is 80 years old and half are between 72 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 660 people named Myrl (296 women and girls, 364 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 604 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,491 babies since 1880, Myrl is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 none of their 93 babies recorded by SSA was a Myrl (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Myrl
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 Myrl and names like it
- Compare Myrl and MirelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMyrl peaked in 1916.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Myrl since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Myrl.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Myrl alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.