Myril

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Myril has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1937. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1937, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% boys, 29% girls all-time.

Babies named Myril, 1938

1 in 369,000

Myril over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Myril over time

In 1938, Myril went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19151938

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 Myril?

Myril had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1938, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1938
1 in 369,000
6 of 2,212,569 births
Among boys only
1 in 185,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1938
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
255,607 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Myril sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1938 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,607 children born in 1938 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Myril. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Myrils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Myril was born before 1937 — so the typical Myril is around 88 today.

Median birth year
1937
About 88 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1930s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Myril 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1937 (6)
Years since peak
88
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,405
1937

Spellings of Myril

Myril is not the most common spelling — Mario is, with 56.8% against Myril's <0.01%.

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.

Myril by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,405
1937
Peak year
1937
6 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
1938
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,762
1915
Peak year
1915
5 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1915
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Myril

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Myril

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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