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Myra

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

English name invented in the 17th century by Fulke Greville (1554-1628) of unknown origin and meaning, some theories include:

1) Variant form of Mira [1] [2]

2) Anagram of Mary [1] [2]

3) Variant form of Myrrha [1]

4) Scottish Anglicised form of Mairead (see Mairéad) [1]

5) Female form of Myron [2] [3]

6) Swedish myra = 'ant' [4]

Related Names

Myra ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Mýra ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Myra
Genitive: Myras
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Myra
Genitive: Myran
Partitive: Myraa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Myra
Genitive: Myras
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Myra
Genitive: Myras

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
307 522 307 520 0 2
Denmark Denmark[6]
37
n.a.
 37
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 44
n.a.
 44 0 0
Iceland Iceland[8]
3 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
42
n.a.
 42
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Myra (f) Sources: [5][6][9][7]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ Elias Wessén: Våra ord (1997)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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