Myrtis

Last seen for girls in 1987 at #11,325 · Last seen for boys in 1926 at #4,201
Given to girls 99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
1912 · 105 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
6,121
since 1882

Myrtis over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Myrtis has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201904peak #464, 1912girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1953#1,29956—
1952#1,18564—
1951#1,21558—
1950#1,24155—
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First appearance
1882

The first year at least five girls were named Myrtis! It came in at #678, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1883, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Myrtis is popular in 1904

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Myrtis
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1987
  • Biggest jump: 177 spots in 1891 (#872 → #695)
  • Biggest drop: 272 spots in 1893 (#554 → #826)
Rise & fade · girls
30 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1882
  • Peaked 1912 at #464 (105 births)
  • Births halved by 1954, 42 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 63 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 63 yrs · run 1886–1946
Share of babies · girls
1 in 5,315
  • Highest: 1 in 5,315 girls born in 1912 were named Myrtis (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 347,726 girls born in 1987 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 26.3% of all girls named Myrtis (1,612) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s59#657 (1889)#770
1890s202#530 (1897)#685
1900s428#485 (1905)#526
1910s1,203#464 (1912)#527
1920s1,612#469 (1921)#562
1930s1,083#595 (1936)#647
1940s753#734 (1940)#935
1950s500#1,185 (1952)#1,454
1960s187#2,150 (1960)#3,231
1970s66#4,038 (1970)#6,658
1980s28#6,371 (1982)#8,882

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Myrtis in 1904

girls
#511
41 births · 1 in 6,716 girls

Top girls' names in 1904

  1. #1Mary14,961
  2. #2Helen6,488
  3. #3Anna5,330
  4. #4Margaret5,302
  5. #5Ruth4,900
  6. #6Elizabeth3,833
  7. #7Marie3,595
  8. #8Florence3,572
  9. #9Mildred3,525
  10. #10Dorothy3,477
  11. #511Myrtis41
More about 1904

girls

275,362 girls got a published name in 1904; 1 in 6,716 of them was named Myrtis, which outranked 76.4% of the 2,165 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Myrtis
  1. #500Viva43
  2. #509Lovie42
  3. #509Magnolia42
  4. #511Myrtis41
  5. #511Adela41
  6. #511Anastasia41
  7. #511Arvilla41
  8. #520Adell40
  9. #520Aurelia40
  10. #520Elena40

Tied with 8 names at #511; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1903
Risers
  1. ↑ 882Electa#1,592 → #710
  2. ↑ 882Edris#1,792 → #910
  3. ↑ 827Lannie#1,792 → #965
  4. ↑ 827Madalyn#1,792 → #965
  5. ↑ 800Amber#1,440 → #640
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,041Genie#836 → #1,877
  2. ↓ 981Doshie#896 → #1,877
  3. ↓ 981Matilde#896 → #1,877
  4. ↓ 908Aida#969 → #1,877
  5. ↓ 908Silvia#969 → #1,877

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1904 →