Myrtle

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Myrtle: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Myrtle: Recorded since 1966, with a gap of 23 years, its highest recorded position is #310, and it stood at #5,669 in 2022.

2registrars recorded it
18times a registrar ranked it
57years from first to last
#310highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Myrtle's record

Absent from every published list for 23 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2004	#3725
2005	#3970
2007	#2895
2008	#2721
2009	#5556
2010	#4012
2011	#4764
2012	#3681
2013	#3536
2014	#5691
2015	#2328
2018	#3985
2021	#5581
2022	#5669

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 15 of the 25 years from 1998 to 2022.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1966–2022 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1966
First recorded at #310 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1966 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1966–1974
Highest recorded position: #310 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1966 (recorded 1966–1974).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2022
Most recently recorded at #5669 among girls in England and Wales, in 2022.
England and Wales · Girls

Myrtle appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 15 ranked years and 75 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1966.

Myrtle across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Myrtle's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#2328 (2015)	#5669 (2022)	15 of 25	75 (1998–2022)	11 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#310 (1966)	#310 (1966)	#490 (1974)	3 of 9	11 (1966–1974)	5 (1966)

Myrtle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Myrtle in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	26	5 of 10	5
2010sbusiest	40	7 of 10	6
2020s	6	2 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Myrtle appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1966 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #310 in Republic of Ireland in 1966.

Myrtle's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2721	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#490	3	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#508	3	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#310	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1966 and 2022, ranked in 18 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #310, first reached in 1966.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 23 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 32 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

6decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 6 decades →
9 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
7separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
23 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period20 or more years missing →
#5,669position in 2022, its most recent recorded year
32 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 21 to 40 years →
11births registered in its largest year, 2015Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Mairin · #310, 19y
Asees · #309, 16y
Michalina · #309, 19y
Ella-Grace · #313, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Johannah · #310, 24y
Mairin · #310, 19y
Paulette · #310, 10y
Ide · #312, 36y

Myrtle was ranked #310 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1966. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Myrtle and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Myrtle without appearing here.

Myrtle moved ahead of

Rian Compare
In 2014 they stood at #5691 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2328 and #5730.
Kristin Compare
In 2014 they stood at #5691 and #4003 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2328 and #4736.
Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4764 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3681 and #5876.
Jeanette Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4764 and #4049 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3681 and #5876.

Moved ahead of Myrtle

Eabha Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3725 and #4598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #5556 and #2326.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2328 and #2705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3985 and #1436.
Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2328 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3985 and #1711.
Rory Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2328 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3985 and #1977.

Moved the opposite way to Myrtle

Ada Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Myrtle went from #3848 to #5669 while Ada went from #3142 to #36.
Alma Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Myrtle went from #3848 to #5669 while Alma went from #2165 to #279.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Myrtle went from #3848 to #5669 while Alyssa went from #561 to #224.
Amalie Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Myrtle went from #3848 to #5669 while Amalie went from #3848 to #940.

Moved the same way as Myrtle

Abigail Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Myrtle went from #3848 to #5669 and Abigail from #22 to #128.
Aimee Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Myrtle went from #3848 to #5669 and Aimee from #68 to #1326.
Aisling Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Myrtle went from #3848 to #5669 and Aisling from #391 to #1621.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Myrtle went from #3848 to #5669 and Alex from #179 to #2178.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1966 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #310 in Republic of Ireland in 1966. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Myrtle

Myrtle at a glance

What stands out in Myrtle's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Myrtle across 2 official records

Myrtle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Myrtle appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Myrtle at a glance

What stands out in Myrtle's record

Myrtle across 2 official records

Myrtle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Myrtle appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Myrtle

Myrtle and the names beside it

Myrtle moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Myrtle

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