Myron
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Myron (from myron ‘myrrh’) or possibly a shortened form of a patronymic derivative such as Myronakis or Myronidis
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/majɹɒn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Myron is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 14K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15K
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 Myron 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 452 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from the personal name Myron (from myron ‘myrrh’) or possibly a shortened form of a patronymic derivative such as Myronakis or Myronidis.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Myron 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Myron | 12 |
| US United States | #913 | 23,379 | 1 in 14K | 23K | Myron | 452 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Myron | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Myron | 124 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Myron | 9 |
| CA Canada | #978 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 3 | Myron | 143 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | 212 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | #757 | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Myron | 19 |
| MD Moldova | — | 558as Miron | 1 in 6K | 558 | — | 5 |
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; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; e-services.md — living population register; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024). 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)
Myron is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Greek sculptor; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Fragrant from myrrh; aromatic shrub
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Greek, unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Myronb. 500GRAthenian sculptor, 5th century BC
- Myron T. Herrickb. 1854USAmerican politician (1854–1929)
- Grim Natwickb. 1890USnot in their usual nameAmerican artist, animator, and film director (1890-1990)
- Myron McCormickb. 1908USAmerican actor (1908–1962)
- Mike Wallaceb. 1918USnot in their usual nameAmerican journalist, game show host and actor (1918–2012)
- Mike Kellinb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1922-1983)
- Gene Amdahlb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican physicist (1922-2015)
- Seymour Hershb. 1937USnot in their usual nameAmerican investigative journalist (born 1937)
- Myron Scholesb. 1941CACanadian economist
- Myron Boadub. 2001NLDutch association football player
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 64 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23K | #1,449 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 191 | #1,449 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 102 | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 8 | #3,166 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2023 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 6 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2023 | 1 | #2,230 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2024 | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Myron mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Myron (from myron ‘myrrh’) or possibly a shortened form of a patronymic derivative such as Myronakis or Myronidis. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Myron a male or female name?
- Myron is a male 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 Myron have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 136 thousand people named Myron in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled myron.
- How do you pronounce Myron?
- A machine transcription gives /majɹɒn/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Myron?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,379 people named Myron in 2020, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Myron compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Myron is the 757th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/myronThe 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, “Myron” — the 757th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.