Myrle — unisex name

What the Data Says About Myrle

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,405 babies named Myrle between 1884 and 1962, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Myrle currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1962. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 98 babies received it in a single year. Myrle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 703 additional births since 1903.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Myrle performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 684 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Myrle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 129 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Myrle in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Myrle 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 2,405 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.