Myrtle
Below 5 births
2025 SSA
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.
Myrtle is also given to boys.
Pronounced MUR-tul.
As of October 2026, Myrtle ranked #3888 in US births in 1943 SSA, peaked at #608 in 1903.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 CorbinGirl
American entertainer with dipygus
- Myrtle Alice CookGirl
Canadian Olympic track athlete
- Myrtle DevenishGirl
Welsh actress
- Mary Caroline "Myrtle" Page FillmoreGirl
American Christian author
- Myrtle GonzalezGirl
American actress
- Myrtle McAteerGirl
American tennis player
- Myrtle ReedGirl
American poet
- Myrtle Olive Felix RobertsonGirl
11th Baroness Wharton, English photographer
- Myrtle StedmanGirl
American actress
- Myrtle VailGirl
American actress
- Myrtle Sharon Mary AugeeGirl
English shot putter
- Myrtle Abigail Porlucas SarrosaGirl
Filipina actress and TV personality
- Myrtle BonjeanGirl
Alpart, girl in the 2012 documentary "Sexy Baby"
Myrtle in pop culture
- Myrtle Elizabeth Warren aka Moaning MyrtleGirl
character from the "Harry Potter" series
- Myrtle WilsonGirl
character in book/film "The Great Gatsby"
- Myrtle the turtleGirl
the biggest turtle in Boston's aquarium
- Myrtle FargateGirl
character on American soap "All My Children"
- Myrtle HazardGirl
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 SnowGirl
character on TV's "American Horror Story , Coven".
- Myrtle EdmondsGirl
the mean girl in the "Lilo & Stitch" series
- Myrtle 'Tilly' DunnageGirl
character in "The Dressmaker"
- Myrtle "Myrt" SpearGirl
main character in radio serial "Myrt and Marge," played by Myrtle Vail
- Myrtle BeachGirl
South Carolina, USA