as a First Name
Invented in the 17th century by the poet Fulke Greville (1554–1628). It is impossible to guess what models he had consciously or unconsciously in mind, but it has been variously conjectured that the name is an anagram of Mary; that it is a simplified spelling of Latin myrrha ‘myrrh, unguent’ and that it is connected with Latin mirari ‘to wonder at, admire’ (see Miranda).
| 725th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 48,666
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 48,793
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Myra per capita
- 1942
- marked the height of its popularity
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