Myrta

Where Myrta comes from

Myrta hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among girls — 17 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #389
    21 babies named Myrta — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #893.
  4. 1927
    Myrta Silva born
    Puerto Rican singer
  5. 1968
    Myrta Merlino born
    Italian journalist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Myrta Silva · Puerto Rican singer, 1927–1987
  • Myrta Merlino · Italian journalist, born 1968
  • Myrta Lockett Avary · American writer and journalist, 1857–1946
  • Myrta Dubost · Chilean politician, born 1940
  • Myrta Ludwig · Swiss chess player, 1928–2003

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.