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Myrna vs Myrta

American parents have registered 31,742 Myrnas since 1880, against 960 Myrtas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Myrna against Myrta, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Myrna Myrta

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 145 years in which either name was published, Myrna for 130 years and Myrta for 15 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Myrna Myrta
Total US births 31,742960
Most in one year 1,80824
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 16,000240
Median age today 7467
Peak year 19381921
Best rank 134th girls1,765th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18851880
Girls / boys 31,700 / 42960 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Myrnas alive today are over 74; half the Myrtas are over 67. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Myrna Myrta
France 29095

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Myrna and Myrta.