Myer
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #4,050 for boys in 2025, 26 births
Given to boys 95.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1912 · 32 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,073since 1893
Myer over time
Rank among boys' names. Myer has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | #4,050 | 26 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #3,605 | 31 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #4,002 | 27 |
| 2022 | — | #4,701 | 21 | |
| 2021 | — | #6,032 | 14 | |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #4,275 | 23 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #4,003 | 26 |
| 2018 | — | #6,036 | 14 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,105 | 25 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | — | #3,775 | 28 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,866 | 19 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #4,180 | 23 |
| 2012 | — | #5,035 | 18 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,822 | 19 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,478 | 16 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,334 | 17 | |
| 2008 | — | #7,187 | 11 | |
| 2007 | — | #7,590 | 10 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,094 | 13 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,634 | 11 | |
| 2004 | — | #11,356 | 5 | |
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| 2002 | — | #9,392 | 6 | |
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| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
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| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
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| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,130 | 6 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
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| 1937 | — | #2,680 | 8 | |
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| 1935 | — | #2,951 | 7 | |
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| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,609 | 10 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,766 | 9 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,960 | 16 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,034 | 16 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,302 | 13 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,089 | 15 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,894 | 18 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,696 | 21 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,143 | 15 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,766 | 20 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,592 | 23 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,321 | 29 | |
| 1918 | — | #966 | 48 | |
| 1917 | — | #964 | 45 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,138 | 33 | |
| 1915 | — | #916 | 46 | |
| 1914 | — | #870 | 39 | |
| 1913 | — | #818 | 34 | |
| 1912 | — | #765 | 32 | |
| 1911 | — | #793 | 17 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,193 | 8 | |
| 1909 | — | #951 | 10 | |
| 1908 | — | #1,217 | 6 | |
| 1907 | — | #930 | 9 | |
| 1906 | — | #1,253 | 5 | |
| 1905 | — | #1,002 | 7 | |
| 1904 | — | #1,205 | 5 | |
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| 1898 | — | #885 | 7 | |
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| 1893 | — | #907 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Myer! It came in at #907, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1894–1897, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Myer is popular in 1918
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#206 · 1 in 2,506
- Pennsylvania#417 · 1 in 9,600
- New York#592 · 1 in 17,957
Best ever in a state: #131 in Massachusetts, 1911.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #206 | 13 | 1 in 2,506 |
| Pennsylvania | #417 | 9 | 1 in 9,600 |
| New York | #592 | 5 | 1 in 17,957 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Myer
- 445 spots since 2024 (#3,605 → #4,050)
- 225 spots since 2020 (#4,275 → #4,050)
- 275 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #4,050)
- Biggest jump: 400 spots in 1911 (#1,193 → #793)
- Biggest drop: 355 spots in 1919 (#966 → #1,321)
- Debuted 1893
- Peaked 1912 at #765 (32 births)
- Births halved by 1922, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1911–1915
- Highest: 1 in 13,292 boys born in 1911 were named Myer (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 65,695 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #765 in 1912, was only 1 in 13,436 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.8% of all boys named Myer (331) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 13 | #885 (1898) | #896 |
| 1900s | 42 | #930 (1907) | #1,093 |
| 1910s | 331 | #765 (1912) | #974 |
| 1920s | 166 | #1,592 (1920) | #2,024 |
| 1930s | 41 | #2,609 (1930) | #3,125 |
| 1940s | 23 | #3,019 (1949) | #3,347 |
| 1950s | 18 | #3,143 (1953) | #3,425 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #6,056 (1979) | #6,056 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 10 | #8,700 (1993) | #9,166 |
| 2000s | 73 | #5,334 (2009) | #7,655 |
| 2010s | 209 | #3,775 (2015) | #4,692 |
| 2020s | 142 | #3,605 (2024) | #4,444 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Myer in 1918
Top boys' names in 1918
More about 1918
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1,013,480 boys got a published name in 1918; 1 in 21,114 of them was named Myer, which outranked 79.9% of the 4,813 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).