Myrna
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Another form of Morna; Irish in origin, though now more used in the United States
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɝnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Myrna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 92nd most common given name.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 621(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 669
- USUnited States1 in 11K
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 Myrna 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 411 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 621 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mirna in SV El Salvador, PY Paraguay, HN Honduras and 1 more.
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)
Another form of Morna; Irish in origin, though now more used in the United States.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
How Myrna is read(measured from records)
Myrna is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English75%
Another form of Morna; Irish in origin, though now more used in the United States.
as a nameIrish first names
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- Spanish14%
Véase Mirna.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Myrna 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 | #92 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 669 | — | Myrna | 117 |
| US United States | #774 | 29,441 | 1 in 11K | 29K | Myrna | 411 |
| SV El Salvador | #116 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 309 | — | Mirna | 43 |
| HN Honduras | #51 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 500 | — | Mirna | 38 |
| EG Egypt | #644 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Mirna | 90 |
| PY Paraguay | #127 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 628 | — | Mirna | 34 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #18 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 621 | — | Myrna | 51 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Myrna 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.
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Irish and English: Anglicized form of Gaelic MUIRNE , now also used elsewhere in the English-speaking world. Variant: Morna .
as a word
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Myrna Loyb. 1905USAmerican actress (1905–1993)
- Myrna Dellb. 1924USAmerican actress (1924-2011)
- Myrna Faheyb. 1933USAmerican actress (1933-1973)
- Myrna Hansenb. 1934USAmerican actress (born 1934)
- Myrna Gopnikb. 1935CACanadian psychologist and linguist
- Jody Millerb. 1941USnot in their usual nameAmerican country music singer (1941–2022)
- Myrna Smithb. 1941USAmerican singer and songwriter (1941–2010)
- Myrna Cunninghamb. 1947NINicaraguan activist
- Myrna Mackb. 1949GTGuatemalan anthropologist
- Myrna Nour El Dinb. 1994EGEgyptian actress and model
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 62 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 29K | #1,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 30 | #1,267 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1943 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Myrna mean, and where does it come from?
- Another form of Morna; Irish in origin, though now more used in the United States. Recorded by Irish first names.
- How do you pronounce Myrna?
- A machine transcription gives /mɝnə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Myrna a male or female name?
- Myrna 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.
- What are other forms of the name Myrna?
- In the etymology graph, Murna is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Myrna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 163 thousand people named Myrna in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled myrna.
- How common is the name Myrna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 29,441 people named Myrna in 2020, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Myrna compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Myrna is the 92nd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Myrna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/myrnaThe 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, “Myrna” — the 92nd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.