Myrta
Myrta was last recorded in 1987, when 5 babies were given it; 960 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Myrta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Myrta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,576, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1921, the peak
Myrta peaked in 1921, when 24 girls were given it, #1,809 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | #12,576 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,230 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,717 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,714 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,310 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,917 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,178 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,680 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,329 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,049 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 8 | #5,298 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,391 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,790 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,233 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,671 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,219 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,784 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,254 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,840 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,719 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,006 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,477 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,364 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,537 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,860 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,475 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,303 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,725 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,937 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,988 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,680 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,333 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,110 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,410 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,669 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,351 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,087 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,598 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,174 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,519 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,397 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,162 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,657 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,830 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,729 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,110 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,139 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,809 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,932 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,642 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,471 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,752 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,207 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,345 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,567 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,282 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,940 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,126 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,443 | 0.01 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,283 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,880 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,501 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,445 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,549 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,866 | 0.02 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,464 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,715 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 20 | #721 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,179 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,639 | 0.02 |
| 1893 | 11 | #942 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 12 | #890 | 0.06 |
| 1891 | 10 | #931 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 13 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1889 | 14 | #711 | 0.08 |
| 1888 | 20 | #566 | 0.11 |
| 1887 | 17 | #552 | 0.12 |
| 1886 | 17 | #552 | 0.12 |
| 1885 | 19 | #496 | 0.14 |
| 1884 | 22 | #435 | 0.17 |
| 1883 | 22 | #406 | 0.20 |
| 1882 | 21 | #400 | 0.19 |
| 1881 | 13 | #484 | 0.14 |
| 1880 | 17 | #414 | 0.19 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Myrta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Myrta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 88 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Myrta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Myrta, and how old are they?
An estimated 229 Americans named Myrta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 58 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 830 people named Myrta (827 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 279 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,221 babies since 1880, Myrta is the second most given (15% 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 Myrta
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 Myrta and names like it
- Compare Myrta and MyrtieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMyrta peaked in 1921.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Myrta since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Myrta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Myrta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.