Myrtle
About Myrtle
Long in our category of so-far-out-it-will-always-be-out category, once seen as a gum-cracking 1940's telephone operator, we think it's time to reassess Myrtle, and look at is as a nature name, a plant with pink or white aromatic berries. Ruled by Venus, myrtle is a plant associated with love, peace, fertility and youth.
Myrtle has lots of literary references as well: in Thomas Hardy's The Hand of Ethelberta, Theodore Dreiser's The Genius, P. G. Wodehouse's Meet Mr Mulliner, and especially The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's Myrtle Wilson has been played on film by actresses as varies as Shelley Winters, Karen Black and Isla Fisher.
Pronounced MUR-tul.
As of October 2026, Myrtle ranked #11611 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #27 in 1894.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Myrtle on lists
Famous Myrtles
- (Josephine) Myrtle Corbin
American entertainer with dipygus
- Myrtle Alice Cook
Canadian Olympic track athlete
- Myrtle Devenish
Welsh actress
- Mary Caroline "Myrtle" Page Fillmore
American Christian author
- Myrtle Gonzalez
American actress
- Myrtle McAteer
American tennis player
- Myrtle Reed
American poet
- Myrtle Olive Felix Robertson
11th Baroness Wharton, English photographer
- Myrtle Stedman
American actress
- Myrtle Vail
American actress
- Myrtle Sharon Mary Augee
English shot putter
- Myrtle Abigail Porlucas Sarrosa
Filipina actress and TV personality
- Myrtle Bonjean
Alpart, girl in the 2012 documentary "Sexy Baby"
Myrtle in pop culture
- Myrtle Elizabeth Warren aka Moaning Myrtle
character from the "Harry Potter" series
- Myrtle Wilson
character in book/film "The Great Gatsby"
- Myrtle the turtle
the biggest turtle in Boston's aquarium
- Myrtle Fargate
character on American soap "All My Children"
- Myrtle Hazard
orphan brought from tropics to live in New England and reared by her spinster aunt in "The Guardian Angel" (1868) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Myrtle Snow
character on TV's "American Horror Story , Coven".
- Myrtle Edmonds
the mean girl in the "Lilo & Stitch" series
- Myrtle 'Tilly' Dunnage
character in "The Dressmaker"
- Myrtle "Myrt" Spear
main character in radio serial "Myrt and Marge," played by Myrtle Vail
- Myrtle Beach
South Carolina, USA