Myrtie
Myrtie was last recorded in 1969, when 6 babies were given it; 4,401 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Myrtie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Myrtie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,193, in 1969; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
114 babies in 1917, the peak
Myrtie peaked in 1917, when 114 girls were given it, #638 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 6 | #7,193 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,207 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,534 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,253 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,872 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,377 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,976 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,444 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,478 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 7 | #4,794 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,061 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,173 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,256 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,926 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,421 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,071 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,698 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,849 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,931 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 40 | #1,275 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 26 | #1,563 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,460 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 45 | #1,076 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 48 | #1,026 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,261 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 39 | #1,141 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 64 | #844 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 56 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 54 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 59 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,150 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 52 | #1,049 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 65 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 75 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 80 | #835 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 77 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 72 | #870 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 91 | #768 | 0.08 |
| 1921 | 102 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 100 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 104 | #688 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 84 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 114 | #638 | 0.11 |
| 1916 | 94 | #710 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 101 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 91 | #598 | 0.12 |
| 1913 | 65 | #643 | 0.10 |
| 1912 | 69 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1911 | 62 | #532 | 0.15 |
| 1910 | 55 | #555 | 0.14 |
| 1909 | 63 | #475 | 0.18 |
| 1908 | 46 | #555 | 0.14 |
| 1907 | 73 | #415 | 0.23 |
| 1906 | 61 | #440 | 0.21 |
| 1905 | 58 | #444 | 0.20 |
| 1904 | 58 | #425 | 0.21 |
| 1903 | 59 | #412 | 0.23 |
| 1902 | 54 | #424 | 0.20 |
| 1901 | 61 | #379 | 0.25 |
| 1900 | 68 | #405 | 0.23 |
| 1899 | 58 | #383 | 0.25 |
| 1898 | 98 | #320 | 0.38 |
| 1897 | 66 | #364 | 0.28 |
| 1896 | 84 | #318 | 0.35 |
| 1895 | 88 | #311 | 0.38 |
| 1894 | 71 | #332 | 0.32 |
| 1893 | 83 | #298 | 0.39 |
| 1892 | 80 | #306 | 0.38 |
| 1891 | 60 | #323 | 0.32 |
| 1890 | 72 | #292 | 0.38 |
| 1889 | 86 | #254 | 0.48 |
| 1888 | 72 | #275 | 0.40 |
| 1887 | 83 | #233 | 0.57 |
| 1886 | 77 | #235 | 0.53 |
| 1885 | 60 | #258 | 0.45 |
| 1884 | 70 | #231 | 0.54 |
| 1883 | 50 | #256 | 0.45 |
| 1882 | 64 | #212 | 0.59 |
| 1881 | 44 | #239 | 0.48 |
| 1880 | 45 | #232 | 0.49 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Myrtie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Myrtie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Myrtie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Myrtie, and how old are they?
An estimated 313 Americans named Myrtie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (7% of everyone recorded); the median is 83 years old and half are between 76 and 89. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 824 people named Myrtie (817 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 504 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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).
Where are babies named Myrtie born?
The states with the most babies named Myrtie are Texas, Alabama and Kentucky, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 266 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Alabama | 211 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Kentucky | 178 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| North Carolina | 176 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Georgia | 175 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Louisiana | 58 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Mississippi | 48 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| South Carolina | 27 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Arkansas | 22 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Myrtie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Myrtie is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Myrtie 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 5,597 babies since 1880, Myrtie is the most given (79% 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 Myrtie
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 Myrtie and names like it
- Compare Myrtie and MyrtaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMyrtie peaked in 1917.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Myrtie since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Myrtie.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Myrtie alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with MMost given first.