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Myrtle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #27 in 1894.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #27 in 1894; #11,611 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Myrtle in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,611 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1894, at #27.
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Myrtle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #27 in 1894 · most girls in one year: 4,076 (1918).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Myrtle, making it the 11,611th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #27, reached in 1894. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,076, in 1918. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #376 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Myrtle in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 620 babies. In all, 136,984 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 32,549 babies named Myrtle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 37 US girls were named Myrtle; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Mirta, Mirtle and Mertle are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Mert, Myrt and Myrti.
Meaning not yet researched.
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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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mirta (860), Mirtle (10), Mertle (5).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,611 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,634 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,779 | — | — |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,952 | — | — |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,047 | — | — |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,657 | — | — |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,448 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,839 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,217 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,235 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,303 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,354 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,381 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,829 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,104 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,860 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,512 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,997 | — | — |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,833 | — | — |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,122 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,787 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,653 | — | — |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,052 | — | — |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,498 | — | — |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,277 | — | — |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,184 | — | — |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,627 | — | — |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,459 | — | — |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,756 | — | — |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,841 | — | — |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,330 | — | — |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,209 | — | — |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,119 | — | — |
| 1971 | 57 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1970 | 50 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 1969 | 71 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1968 | 74 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 1967 | 85 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1966 | 88 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1965 | 117 | #947 | — | — |
| 1964 | 115 | #998 | — | — |
| 1963 | 110 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1962 | 145 | #872 | — | — |
| 1961 | 186 | #768 | — | — |
| 1960 | 175 | #772 | — | — |
| 1959 | 182 | #754 | — | — |
| 1958 | 196 | #706 | — | — |
| 1957 | 229 | #650 | — | — |
| 1956 | 257 | #590 | — | — |
| 1955 | 316 | #520 | — | — |
| 1954 | 325 | #490 | — | — |
| 1953 | 378 | #442 | — | — |
| 1952 | 366 | #450 | — | — |
| 1951 | 397 | #418 | — | — |
| 1950 | 460 | #376 | — | — |
| 1949 | 523 | #339 | — | — |
| 1948 | 537 | #336 | — | — |
| 1947 | 596 | #320 | — | — |
| 1946 | 571 | #308 | — | — |
| 1945 | 621 | #277 | — | — |
| 1944 | 686 | #262 | — | — |
| 1943 | 843 | #232 | 5 | #3,888 |
| 1942 | 911 | #218 | — | — |
| 1941 | 966 | #194 | 5 | #3,851 |
| 1940 | 1,020 | #184 | 5 | #3,797 |
| 1939 | 1,064 | #179 | — | — |
| 1938 | 1,114 | #182 | 7 | #3,078 |
| 1937 | 1,194 | #169 | 10 | #2,426 |
| 1936 | 1,240 | #160 | 10 | #2,406 |
| 1935 | 1,312 | #153 | 7 | #3,163 |
| 1934 | 1,435 | #141 | 8 | #2,887 |
| 1933 | 1,398 | #142 | 5 | #4,003 |
| 1932 | 1,669 | #135 | 11 | #2,418 |
| 1931 | 1,711 | #134 | 17 | #1,816 |
| 1930 | 1,997 | #123 | 15 | #2,037 |
| 1929 | 2,126 | #117 | 6 | #3,826 |
| 1928 | 2,243 | #116 | 16 | #2,020 |
| 1927 | 2,550 | #110 | 10 | #2,844 |
| 1926 | 2,756 | #101 | 15 | #2,160 |
| 1925 | 2,980 | #95 | 9 | #3,071 |
| 1924 | 3,205 | #89 | 9 | #3,180 |
| 1923 | 3,314 | #84 | 9 | #3,099 |
| 1922 | 3,649 | #75 | 6 | #4,165 |
| 1921 | 3,791 | #73 | 14 | #2,338 |
| 1920 | 3,955 | #68 | 8 | #3,402 |
| 1919 | 3,816 | #67 | 10 | #2,810 |
| 1918 | 4,076 | #62 | 18 | #1,879 |
| 1917 | 4,046 | #58 | 17 | #1,878 |
| 1916 | 3,960 | #58 | 14 | #2,117 |
| 1915 | 3,865 | #58 | 22 | #1,493 |
| 1914 | 3,049 | #60 | 8 | #2,581 |
| 1913 | 2,843 | #53 | 8 | #2,211 |
| 1912 | 2,599 | #50 | 5 | #2,792 |
| 1911 | 2,033 | #50 | 8 | #1,353 |
| 1910 | 2,145 | #43 | 7 | #1,383 |
| 1909 | 1,950 | #43 | 5 | #1,625 |
| 1908 | 1,952 | #44 | 7 | #1,185 |
| 1907 | 1,929 | #39 | 7 | #1,171 |
| 1906 | 1,921 | #37 | 7 | #1,081 |
| 1905 | 2,026 | #33 | — | — |
| 1904 | 1,905 | #34 | 6 | #1,166 |
| 1903 | 1,980 | #30 | 14 | #608 |
| 1902 | 1,884 | #32 | 9 | #844 |
| 1901 | 1,892 | #28 | 9 | #761 |
| 1900 | 2,252 | #32 | — | — |
| 1899 | 1,821 | #30 | 7 | #915 |
| 1898 | 2,090 | #30 | 7 | #963 |
| 1897 | 1,833 | #29 | — | — |
| 1896 | 1,928 | #30 | 13 | #620 |
| 1895 | 1,938 | #28 | 12 | #633 |
| 1894 | 1,818 | #27 | 6 | #1,043 |
| 1893 | 1,759 | #29 | 8 | #811 |
| 1892 | 1,666 | #32 | 5 | #1,200 |
| 1891 | 1,458 | #31 | 6 | #924 |
| 1890 | 1,406 | #34 | 5 | #1,110 |
| 1889 | 1,361 | #33 | 10 | #656 |
| 1888 | 1,310 | #35 | — | — |
| 1887 | 1,087 | #36 | 7 | #804 |
| 1886 | 1,094 | #35 | 8 | #740 |
| 1885 | 1,026 | #34 | 5 | #1,043 |
| 1884 | 979 | #34 | 6 | #933 |
| 1883 | 851 | #37 | — | — |
| 1882 | 803 | #38 | — | — |
| 1881 | 643 | #37 | — | — |
| 1880 | 615 | #40 | 5 | #1,018 |
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).