The first name Myra was created by poet Fulke Greville (1554 – 1628). It may be a variant of Mary or based on the Latin word ‘myrra’ meaning ‘myrrh’.
Myra is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Myra isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Myra ranks 550. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Myra. In the entire USA, approximately 54,052 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Myra. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Myra annualy. This means that there have been girls named Myra who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Myra have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Myra even more than any other time: in 1880, it holds its present record of rank #153 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Myra was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Myra has never been ranked higher than #153. In 2022, she rivaled the 511 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 540 girls named Myra were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Myra were born, there have been 273 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With four letters, the name Myra is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Myra and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Myra, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Myra
Myra
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
Y
R
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
Y
R
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Myra sounds like this:
