Myrtie
Myrtie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 212th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1917114 births
- Best rank
- #212in 1882
- Since 1880
- 4,401people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,401 girls have been named Myrtie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 114 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 114 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1913, and the 1910s alone account for 19%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1917, its biggest year
Myrtie was the 638th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Myrtie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Effiepeak 1919
- Minniepeak 1916
- Augustapeak 1915
- Maypeak 1919
- Lizziepeak 1919
- Nanniepeak 1920
- Nettiepeak 1918
- Bellpeak 1900
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.