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Myrtis

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Myrtis has been given to 6,126 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1921, with 216 recorded.

Babies named Myrtis, 1987

1 in 721,000

Myrtis over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Myrtis: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Myrtis means

Myrtis is a given name.

The naming story behind Myrtis

Wikidata records Myrtis as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q137724226, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,121 girls were recorded with the name Myrtis between 1882 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 216 in 1921; its best national rank was #465 in 1912.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Myrtis between 1926 and 1926. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1926; its best national rank was #4,623 in 1926.

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 Myrtis?

Myrtis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987
1 in 721,000
5 of 3,605,072 births
Among girls only
1 in 348,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1987
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
499,770 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Myrtis 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 1987 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 499,770 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Myrtis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Myrtiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Myrtis was born before 1926 — so the typical Myrtis is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
26.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
781
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1920s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (1,612).

Is Myrtis 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 1921 (216)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#465
1912

Spellings of Myrtis

Myrtis is not the most common spelling — Myrtle is, with 80.0% against Myrtis's 3.6%.

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 Myrtis is used

Across 1910–2025, Myrtis was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,695 girls, against 1 in 11,272 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

059 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,695
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 3,030
  3. 3Alabama1 in 5,882
  4. 4Georgia1 in 6,250
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 6,667
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 14,286
  7. 7Florida1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

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

Myrtis 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
#465
1912
Peak year
1921
216 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
6,121
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,623
1926
Peak year
1926
5 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
1926
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Myrtis

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

MyriamMyrandaMyrtieMyracleMyrticeMyriahMyrahMyrleMyrtleCurtisMyricalMyrnaMyraMyrtaMyrlMyrthaMyriaMyrkaMyronMyreneMyrianMyrissaMyrleneMertis

Names with a curve like Myrtis

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

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Sibling names for Myrtis

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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