Myrica
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Any of the genus Myrica of shrubs and trees
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Myrica is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 8.1Mfew recordsas Myrika
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.5Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Myrica itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
≈44 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Myrika in US United States, AU Australia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Any of the genus Myrica of shrubs and trees.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Myrica counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Myrica | 6 |
| US United States | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 8.1M | — | Myrika | 65 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Myrica | 11 |
| AU Australia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 6M | — | Myrika | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Myrica | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Myrica is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, CĂTÍNĂ, cătini, s. f. Numele a două specii de arbuști spinoși: a) cătină roșie, cu frunze mici în formă de solzi, cu flori roz sau albe și cu fructe roșii, cultivat ca gard viu; tamariscă (Tamarix ramosissima); b) cătină albă, cu frunze înguste, lanceolate, argintii, cu flori mici cafenii și cu fructe galbene-portocalii (Hippophaë rhamnoides).
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Latvian, Purvmirtes
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Myrica mean, and where does it come from?
- Any of the genus Myrica of shrubs and trees. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Myrica a male or female name?
- Myrica is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Myrica have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 people named Myrica in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled myrica.
- Where is Myrica most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Myrica is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Myrica?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Myrica in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/myricaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Myrica”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.