Myrle
Myrle was last recorded in 1966, when 6 babies were given it; 3,108 Americans have been recorded with it between 1884 and 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Myrle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Myrle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,684, in 1962; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
122 babies in 1918, the peak
Myrle peaked in 1918, when 122 babies were given it (96 girls, #734 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,807 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,439 | |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,684 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,232 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,398 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 8 | #3,199 | |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,871 | 6 | #3,841 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,628 | 6 | #3,764 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,355 | 7 | #3,368 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,052 | 7 | #3,332 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 6 | #5,363 | 7 | #3,289 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,234 | 10 | #2,606 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,999 | 8 | #2,951 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,550 | 6 | #3,587 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,287 | 7 | #3,220 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,732 | 9 | #2,808 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,070 | 15 | #1,929 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,860 | 10 | #2,344 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,260 | 14 | #1,947 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,979 | 12 | #2,247 |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,790 | 9 | #2,656 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,522 | 9 | #2,598 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,729 | 8 | #2,803 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,714 | 12 | #2,135 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,363 | 14 | #1,952 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,440 | 9 | #2,623 |
| 1936 | 42 | #1,094 | 10 | #2,404 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,345 | 15 | #1,896 |
| 1934 | 32 | #1,281 | 13 | #2,086 |
| 1933 | 43 | #1,071 | 17 | #1,754 |
| 1932 | 45 | #1,063 | 10 | #2,581 |
| 1931 | 41 | #1,117 | 18 | #1,752 |
| 1930 | 47 | #1,082 | 16 | #1,939 |
| 1929 | 65 | #891 | 23 | #1,553 |
| 1928 | 62 | #950 | 14 | #2,231 |
| 1927 | 61 | #980 | 24 | #1,588 |
| 1926 | 69 | #899 | 24 | #1,549 |
| 1925 | 66 | #920 | 31 | #1,323 |
| 1924 | 72 | #890 | 21 | #1,761 |
| 1923 | 68 | #893 | 15 | #2,196 |
| 1922 | 66 | #903 | 13 | #2,438 |
| 1921 | 82 | #810 | 20 | #1,807 |
| 1920 | 73 | #848 | 29 | #1,372 |
| 1919 | 77 | #804 | 15 | #2,121 |
| 1918 | 96 | #734 | 26 | #1,431 |
| 1917 | 85 | #755 | 29 | #1,286 |
| 1916 | 81 | #764 | 23 | #1,494 |
| 1915 | 98 | #667 | 22 | #1,491 |
| 1914 | 66 | #712 | 23 | #1,250 |
| 1913 | 37 | #879 | 13 | #1,558 |
| 1912 | 43 | #767 | 9 | #1,835 |
| 1911 | 33 | #762 | 8 | #1,351 |
| 1910 | 27 | #840 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 31 | #728 | 6 | #1,401 |
| 1908 | 34 | #667 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 19 | #891 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 23 | #771 | 7 | #1,079 |
| 1905 | 22 | #794 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 24 | #720 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 24 | #686 | 5 | #1,250 |
| 1902 | 24 | #708 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 21 | #718 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 21 | #823 | under 5 | |
| 1899 | 18 | #783 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 25 | #663 | under 5 | |
| 1897 | 24 | #638 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 19 | #745 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 16 | #810 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 20 | #678 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 19 | #682 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,065 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 10 | #930 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 12 | #813 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,097 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 12 | #780 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,115 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,066 | under 5 | |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,119 | 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 Myrle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,108 Americans recorded as Myrle, 77% are girls and 23% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Myrle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Myrle, and how old are they?
An estimated 357 Americans named Myrle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 81 years old and half are between 75 and 88. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 676 people named Myrle (458 women and girls, 218 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 18% 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 Myrle born?
The states with the most babies named Myrle are Pennsylvania, Texas and Utah, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 134 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 97 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Utah | 65 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| Alabama | 27 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arkansas | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Idaho | 11 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Oklahoma | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| South Dakota | 7 | not ranked | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Myrle 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,260 babies since 1880, Myrle is the most given (95% of them).
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 Myrle
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 Myrle and names like it
- Compare Myrle and MyrlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMyrle peaked in 1918.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Myrle since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Myrle.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Myrle alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with MMost given first.