Myrl — unisex name

What the Data Says About Myrl

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,831 babies named Myrl between 1887 and 1956, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Myrl currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1956. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 84 babies received it in a single year. Myrl is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,261 additional births since 1896.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Myrl performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 567 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Myrl shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 60 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Myrl in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Myrl 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 1,831 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.