Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Myers” in the USA?

Number of people named “Myers” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Myers” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Myers” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Myers” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Myers” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Myers” by birth year

This chart shows how “Myers” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1913 7 0.000006156 7 -100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 -100%
1915 9 0.000004912 9 -100%
1916 11 0.000005686 11 -100%
1917 12 0.00000598 12 -100%
1918 12 0.000005527 12 -100%
1919 15 0.000007108 15 -100%
1920 12 0.000005304 12 -100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 -100%
1922 12 0.000005242 12 -100%
1923 10 0.000004343 10 -100%
1924 12 0.000005039 12 -100%
1925 10 0.000004286 10 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 -100%
1928 10 0.000004423 10 -100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 -100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 -100%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 -100%
1934 7 0.000003371 7 -100%
1935 9 0.000004306 9 -100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1938 7 0.000003164 7 -100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1941 10 0.000004104 10 -100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 -100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 -100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 -100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 -100%
1954 12 0.000003015 12 -100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 -100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2008 9 0.00000229 9 -100%
2009 11 0.000002879 11 -100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2013 18 0.000004937 6 12 -33%
2014 16 0.000004317 5 11 -38%
2015 22 0.000005944 5 17 -55%
2016 32 0.000008722 7 25 -56%
2017 24 0.000006711 8 16 -33%
2018 31 0.000008817 5 26 -68%
2019 34 0.000009796 6 28 -65%
2020 25 0.000007484 6 19 -52%
2021 31 0.00000915 9 22 -42%
2022 27 0.000007981 7 20 -48%
2023 41 0.000012382 8 33 -61%
2024 49 0.000014721 14 35 -43%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Myers:

  1. Myel
  2. Myelin
  3. Myella
  4. Myelle
  5. Myer
  6. Myers (this page)
  7. Myesha
  8. Myesheia
  9. Myeshia
  10. Myesia
  11. Myha