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The MYRTLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 385 50903 0 1
United States (1880 census) 185 20487 0 4
Change since 1880 +200 -30416 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 21 50484 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MYRTLE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 52 11595 0.001 7
New York 44 38246 0.000 2
California 29 67382 0.000 1
Florida 24 55803 0.000 2
Indiana 20 26475 0.000 3
Top States for MYRTLE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 10 12580 0.001 13
Rhode Island 8 16552 0.001 8
Kansas 20 14533 0.001 7
Virginia 52 11595 0.001 7
Washington DC 4 12547 0.001 7

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MYRTLE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MYRTLE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MYRTLE in Virginia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MYRTLE by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MYRTLE

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MYRTLE surname.

Ethnic distribution of MYRTLE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 349 90.65
Black/African American 22 5.71
White (Hispanic) 7 1.82
Mixed Race 5 1.3
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MYRTLE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

MYRTLE is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of MYRTLE in historical publications

MYRTLE. A corruption of Martel

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MYRTLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MYRTLE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MYRTLE

The following words are slight variants of MYRTLE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.