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.

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

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2022

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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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

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

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 Wales has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

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.

Where Myrtle is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Myrtle, between 1966 and 2022, in 18 of those 57 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1966–1974	3	#310 in 1966
England and Wales	1998–2022	15	#2328 in 2015

Its high point came 49 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1966) than in England and Wales (2015).

No registrar recorded it for 23 years after 1974; it appears again in 1998.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

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.

Alma#310
Anastatia#310
Bernadine#310
Blaithin#310
Antonia#344
Aveen#344
Beverley#344
Beverly#344

What is known about Myrtle

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 1966–2022.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 the data shows

Popularity journey

Myrtle across 2 official records

Myrtle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

Where Myrtle is officially recorded

Names published alongside Myrtle

What is known about Myrtle

Myrtle at a glance

Myrtle across 2 official records

Myrtle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Names published alongside Myrtle