Myrtle

Greek botanical name

Myrtle Origin and Meaning

The name Myrtle is a girl's name of Greek origin.

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.

Myrtle Rank in US Top 1000

# 945 in the US

Myrtle Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1706 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Myrtle

• 1706 Nameberry 2025

20 Names Similar to Myrtle

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Famous People Named Myrtle

• (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"

The name 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