Myrl
Myrl is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 637th, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191684 births
- Best rank
- #637in 1899
- Since 1887
- 3,092people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,831 girls have been named Myrl in the United States since 1887, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 84 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 84 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1920s alone account for 31%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Myrl is used for both sexes: 41% of its bearers are boys (1,261), most of them born around 1916.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1916, its biggest year
Myrl was the 742nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Myrl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Myrlepeak 1915
- Hildredpeak 1920
- Hildegardepeak 1915
- Eunapeak 1916
- Oziepeak 1922
- Margueritepeak 1918
- Buelahpeak 1927
- Izettapeak 1924
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.