Fewer than five US girls were named Myrna in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #134, reached in 1938. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,801. For comparison, it was #8,305 in 2015 and #381 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Myrna in 139 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 11 babies. In all, 31,742 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 10,260 babies named Myrna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 123 US girls were named Myrna; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 19.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Myra (63,967 babies since 1880), Mirna (4,159 babies since 1880) and Merna (2,461 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.