Meaning not yet researched.
Myra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 429 in 2025. Its best rank was #158 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #158 in 1880; #663 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Myra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#663 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #158.
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Myra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 429 girls in 2025. Peak: #158 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 1,288 (1958).
In 2025, 429 US girls were named Myra, making it the 663rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 17 places from #646 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 455 girls named Myra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #158, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,288, in 1958. For comparison, it was #600 in 2015 and #236 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Myra in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 83 babies with the name. In all, 63,967 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 10,391 babies named Myra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,357 US girls were named Myra; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 634. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,747 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Myra ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #241 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Myrna (31,742 babies since 1880), Mira (15,101 babies since 1880), Tamyra (2,274 babies since 1880) and Meera (4,259 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Myrah, Mera and Mirah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Icelandic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Myrah (786), Mera (587), Mirah (562), Myria (535), Mirai (423), Mirra (381), Miara (235), Miray (203), Mirae (60), Miura (54), Myaira (40), Miera (27), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Myra in the open dataset we use.
Myra is listed as a nickname for Almira, Samyra.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 5 | #241 | — |
| Indiana | 21 | #343 | #752 |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #347 | #366 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #354 | — |
| Idaho | 6 | #393 | #426 |
| Maryland | 13 | #414 | #861 |
| Michigan | 18 | #477 | #395 |
| Iowa | 7 | #478 | #675 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #495 | #651 |
| Ohio | 22 | #501 | #726 |
| Washington | 14 | #506 | #317 |
| Missouri | 12 | #507 | #517 |
| Utah | 8 | #527 | #695 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #532 | — |
| Arkansas | 6 | #540 | — |
| Kentucky | 8 | #555 | #554 |
| Virginia | 14 | #561 | #384 |
| Illinois | 15 | #654 | #525 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #665 | #732 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #700 | #218 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #713 | #575 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #762 | #672 |
| Colorado | 7 | #767 | #677 |
| California | 39 | #785 | #540 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #800 | #907 |
| Texas | 36 | #835 | #806 |
| Georgia | 12 | #843 | #680 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #887 | #945 |
| New York | 15 | #1,013 | #956 |
| Florida | 15 | #1,041 | #894 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 429 | #663 | — | — |
| 2024 | 455 | #646 | — | — |
| 2023 | 507 | #592 | — | — |
| 2022 | 540 | #563 | — | — |
| 2021 | 507 | #592 | — | — |
| 2020 | 533 | #556 | — | — |
| 2019 | 572 | #537 | — | — |
| 2018 | 634 | #491 | — | — |
| 2017 | 616 | #509 | — | — |
| 2016 | 564 | #552 | — | — |
| 2015 | 493 | #600 | — | — |
| 2014 | 448 | #639 | — | — |
| 2013 | 353 | #773 | — | — |
| 2012 | 307 | #871 | — | — |
| 2011 | 342 | #793 | — | — |
| 2010 | 265 | #966 | — | — |
| 2009 | 303 | #901 | — | — |
| 2008 | 242 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 2007 | 231 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 2006 | 255 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 2005 | 240 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 2004 | 226 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 2003 | 249 | #944 | — | — |
| 2002 | 245 | #913 | — | — |
| 2001 | 233 | #953 | — | — |
| 2000 | 230 | #935 | — | — |
| 1999 | 234 | #904 | — | — |
| 1998 | 228 | #920 | — | — |
| 1997 | 201 | #974 | — | — |
| 1996 | 236 | #846 | — | — |
| 1995 | 226 | #861 | — | — |
| 1994 | 241 | #835 | — | — |
| 1993 | 246 | #816 | — | — |
| 1992 | 274 | #761 | — | — |
| 1991 | 287 | #725 | — | — |
| 1990 | 300 | #702 | — | — |
| 1989 | 270 | #732 | — | — |
| 1988 | 302 | #649 | — | — |
| 1987 | 293 | #645 | — | — |
| 1986 | 321 | #602 | 7 | #5,740 |
| 1985 | 308 | #615 | — | — |
| 1984 | 311 | #586 | — | — |
| 1983 | 323 | #565 | — | — |
| 1982 | 332 | #558 | 5 | #7,034 |
| 1981 | 350 | #537 | — | — |
| 1980 | 367 | #524 | — | — |
| 1979 | 318 | #572 | — | — |
| 1978 | 355 | #523 | — | — |
| 1977 | 345 | #530 | — | — |
| 1976 | 341 | #522 | — | — |
| 1975 | 367 | #493 | — | — |
| 1974 | 384 | #471 | — | — |
| 1973 | 404 | #456 | — | — |
| 1972 | 362 | #492 | — | — |
| 1971 | 451 | #455 | — | — |
| 1970 | 454 | #462 | — | — |
| 1969 | 452 | #456 | — | — |
| 1968 | 510 | #413 | — | — |
| 1967 | 508 | #413 | — | — |
| 1966 | 528 | #403 | — | — |
| 1965 | 638 | #360 | — | — |
| 1964 | 749 | #348 | — | — |
| 1963 | 863 | #319 | — | — |
| 1962 | 900 | #312 | 5 | #4,457 |
| 1961 | 1,037 | #288 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,174 | #261 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,245 | #246 | 5 | #4,387 |
| 1958 | 1,288 | #237 | 8 | #3,199 |
| 1957 | 1,106 | #259 | — | — |
| 1956 | 896 | #298 | — | — |
| 1955 | 916 | #284 | — | — |
| 1954 | 960 | #271 | — | — |
| 1953 | 966 | #261 | — | — |
| 1952 | 941 | #259 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,028 | #243 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,032 | #236 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,013 | #234 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,088 | #223 | — | — |
| 1947 | 1,141 | #222 | — | — |
| 1946 | 818 | #246 | 6 | #3,413 |
| 1945 | 737 | #248 | 5 | #3,635 |
| 1944 | 719 | #253 | — | — |
| 1943 | 886 | #221 | 5 | #3,886 |
| 1942 | 929 | #216 | — | — |
| 1941 | 788 | #220 | — | — |
| 1940 | 749 | #224 | — | — |
| 1939 | 658 | #244 | — | — |
| 1938 | 724 | #231 | — | — |
| 1937 | 642 | #248 | — | — |
| 1936 | 574 | #255 | — | — |
| 1935 | 595 | #257 | — | — |
| 1934 | 593 | #255 | — | — |
| 1933 | 512 | #271 | — | — |
| 1932 | 560 | #265 | — | — |
| 1931 | 511 | #275 | — | — |
| 1930 | 489 | #300 | — | — |
| 1929 | 490 | #295 | — | — |
| 1928 | 521 | #288 | — | — |
| 1927 | 535 | #289 | — | — |
| 1926 | 466 | #307 | — | — |
| 1925 | 502 | #299 | — | — |
| 1924 | 492 | #302 | — | — |
| 1923 | 473 | #297 | — | — |
| 1922 | 468 | #295 | — | — |
| 1921 | 523 | #289 | — | — |
| 1920 | 516 | #289 | — | — |
| 1919 | 461 | #297 | — | — |
| 1918 | 468 | #295 | — | — |
| 1917 | 465 | #286 | — | — |
| 1916 | 422 | #291 | 5 | #4,308 |
| 1915 | 390 | #294 | — | — |
| 1914 | 322 | #293 | — | — |
| 1913 | 305 | #266 | — | — |
| 1912 | 224 | #302 | — | — |
| 1911 | 186 | #286 | — | — |
| 1910 | 155 | #309 | — | — |
| 1909 | 144 | #300 | — | — |
| 1908 | 148 | #291 | — | — |
| 1907 | 142 | #293 | — | — |
| 1906 | 139 | #283 | — | — |
| 1905 | 126 | #298 | — | — |
| 1904 | 119 | #296 | — | — |
| 1903 | 128 | #275 | — | — |
| 1902 | 136 | #268 | — | — |
| 1901 | 115 | #278 | — | — |
| 1900 | 164 | #254 | — | — |
| 1899 | 115 | #268 | — | — |
| 1898 | 143 | #249 | — | — |
| 1897 | 138 | #242 | — | — |
| 1896 | 158 | #220 | — | — |
| 1895 | 127 | #247 | — | — |
| 1894 | 148 | #218 | — | — |
| 1893 | 117 | #245 | — | — |
| 1892 | 113 | #247 | — | — |
| 1891 | 113 | #229 | — | — |
| 1890 | 133 | #209 | — | — |
| 1889 | 121 | #208 | — | — |
| 1888 | 134 | #193 | — | — |
| 1887 | 95 | #214 | — | — |
| 1886 | 96 | #202 | — | — |
| 1885 | 84 | #217 | — | — |
| 1884 | 98 | #183 | — | — |
| 1883 | 81 | #187 | — | — |
| 1882 | 89 | #170 | — | — |
| 1881 | 72 | #177 | — | — |
| 1880 | 83 | #158 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).