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Myrtie

Girls' name

Diminutive of Myrtle

Myrtie has been given to 4,401 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1917, with 114 recorded.

Babies named Myrtie, 1969

1 in 579,000

Myrtie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Myrtie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Myrtle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Myrtie means

Myrtie is a diminutive of Myrtle.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Myrtie is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmɜɹ.ti/ and /ˈmɜː.ti/ for Myrtie.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Myrtle.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,401 girls were recorded with the name Myrtie between 1880 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 114 in 1917; its best national rank was #212 in 1882.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Myrtie?

Myrtie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1969
1 in 579,000
6 of 3,475,126 births
Among girls only
1 in 281,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1969
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,463 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Myrtie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1969 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 401,463 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Myrtie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Myrties were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Myrtie was born before 1913 — so the typical Myrtie is around 112 today.

Median birth year
1913
About 112 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
19.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 19.1% of all recorded uses (839).

Is Myrtie 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 1917 (114)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#212
1882

Spellings of Myrtie

Myrtie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 52.5% against Myrtie's 0.43%.

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 Myrtie is used

Across 1910–2025, Myrtie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 52,348 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 14,286
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 16,667
  3. 3Georgia1 in 25,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 25,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 50,000
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 50,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 50,000
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 100,000

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. Myrtie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Myrtie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#212
1882
Peak year
1917
114 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1969
All-time count
4,401
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Myrtie

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

MyriamMyrandaJettieKattieMyrtisMyracleMyrticeMyriahDottieLettieBertieScottieMyrahMartieMyrleMittieEttieHettieKittieGertieMistiePattieMyricalKirstie

Names with a curve like Myrtie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Myrtie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ZulaHettieSudieTennieNelleLydaMathildaPearleCordieHuldaHilmaMayme

Sibling names for Myrtie

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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