Myrl
Recorded 1887–1972 · United States
Myrl was most popular in 1916, when 128 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,086 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,092 people named Myrl.
Myrl over time
How old is the name Myrl?
Myrl first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1887, which makes it about 138 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 81 of the 139 years since. It was last recorded in 1972.
How many people are named Myrl?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,092 American births named Myrl between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 427 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Myrl in 2025?
Myrl was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Myrl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Myrl is a unisex name — 59.2% of the 3,092 Americans given it were girls and 40.8% were boys. It changed hands: since 1935 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Myrl?
Roughly 427 Americans named Myrl are alive today — 14% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 80 years old, and half are between 73 and 87.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Myrl is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org