Myra

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Myra: Recorded since 1964, its highest recorded position is #207, and it stood at #381 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
58times a registrar ranked it
62years from first to last
#207highest recorded position
18groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#2411
1998	#2407
1999	#1805
2000	#2416
2001	#1617
2002	#1317
2003	#1722
2004	#2278
2005	#1406
2006	#1325
2007	#2895
2008	#1584
2009	#1325
2010	#1653
2011	#1225
2012	#1130
2013	#1177
2014	#802
2015	#539
2016	#573
2017	#424
2018	#431
2019	#545
2020	#535
2021	#491
2022	#449
2023	#455
2024	#377

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 28 of the 62 years from 1964 to 2025.

In 2024: #377 among girls in England and Wales, #441 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1964–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #372 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #381 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Myra appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 1,198 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1964.

Myra 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.

Myra'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#372 (1964)	#270 (1968)	#381 (2025)	28 of 62	133 (1964–2025)	10 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#2096 (1996)	#377 (2024)	#377 (2024)	29 of 29	1,198 (1996–2024)	114 (2024)

Myra 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 Myra in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	28	4 of 10	7
2000s	132	10 of 10	13
2010s	582	10 of 10	58
2020sbusiest	456	5 of 10	91

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 91 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2014 and 2015, when recorded births rose by 32, from 48 to 80.

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

Myra 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 1964 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #207 in Republic of Ireland in 1965.

Myra'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
2024	England and Wales	female	#377	114	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#455	87	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#449	94	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#491	86	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#535	75	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#545	74	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#431	101	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#424	104	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#573	73	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#539	80	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#802	48	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1177	29	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1130	30	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1225	26	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1653	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1325	22	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1584	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1325	19	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1406	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1722	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1317	15	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1617	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#381	10	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#441	8	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#628	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	4	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	3	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#458	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#459	4	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#529	3	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#467	4	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#386	6	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#432	5	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#467	4	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#503	3	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	5	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#428	4	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#383	5	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#282	9	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	3	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#270	8	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#310	5	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#207	5	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#372	3	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 1964 and 2025, ranked in 49 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #207, first reached in 1965.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 114 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, 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.

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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Mylo · #284, 29y
Myrah · #1302, 22y
Myriam · #905, 26y

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.

Turlough · #206, 46y
Brona · #203, 49y
Donnchadh · #212, 54y
Evin · #215, 48y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

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

Amal · #208, 62y
Cahal · #206, 18y
Darin · #206, 26y
Ekaterina · #208, 52y

Myra was ranked #207 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1965. 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.

Myra 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 Myra without appearing here.

Myra moved ahead of

Therese Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2895 and #2895 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1584 and #5545.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2416 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1617 and #3998.
Jeanette Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2407 and #2407 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1805 and #3900.
Kai Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2895 and #2895 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1584 and #3397.

Moved ahead of Myra

Ida Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1325 and #1435 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #2895 and #987.
Harper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1325 and #2137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #2895 and #1573.
Mila Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1317 and #1442 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1722 and #799.
Evie Compare
In 2015 they stood at #439 and #528 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #750 and #39.

Moved the opposite way to Myra

Heidi Compare
Between 1968 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Myra went from #270 to #381 while Heidi went from #401 to #91.
Lara Compare
Between 1968 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Myra went from #270 to #381 while Lara went from #401 to #102.
Matilda Compare
Between 1968 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Myra went from #270 to #381 while Matilda went from #401 to #106.
Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Myra went from #2096 to #377 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.

Moved the same way as Myra

Barbara Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Myra went from #372 to #856 and Barbara from #43 to #856.
Diane Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Myra went from #372 to #856 and Diane from #215 to #727.
Ingrid Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Myra went from #372 to #856 and Ingrid from #201 to #856.
Jude Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Myra went from #372 to #856 and Jude from #234 to #727.

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 1964 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #207 in Republic of Ireland in 1965. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Myra

Myra at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Myra across 2 official records

Myra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Myra appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Myra

Myra and the names beside it

Myra moved ahead of

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Myra at a glance

Myra across 2 official records

Myra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Myra 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 Myra

Myra and the names beside it

Myra moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Myra

Moved the opposite way to Myra

Moved the same way as Myra