Myers
#3,724 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Myers has been given to 794 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #3,724 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 35 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% boys, 12% girls all-time.
Babies named Myers, 2025
1 in 111,000
Myers over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Myers over time
In 2025, Myers went to 27% girls and 73% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Myers?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 111,000
- 30 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 56,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,724
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 76,598 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Myers sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Myers. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Myerss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Myers was born before 2004 — so the typical Myers is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 22.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 51.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 432
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (159).
Is Myers rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −356
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,249
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,721
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.76×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 85.7%
- Peak was 2024 (35)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.4% average annual change
Spellings of Myers
Myers is not the most common spelling — Myles is, with 80.7% against Myers's 0.87%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Myers is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Myers was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 674,206 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in —
- 2Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Myers has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Myers is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Myers was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 665,277 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Myers has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Myers around the world
Where Myers ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada2024–2024#3,231in 2024
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Myers by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Myers
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Myers
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.