Myrtle

Greek botanical name

Myrtle Origin and Meaning

The name Myrtle is a girl's name of Greek origin.

Long in our category of so-far-out-it-will-always-be-out category, once seen as a gum-cracking 1940's telephone operator, we think it's time to reassess Myrtle, and look at is as a nature name, a plant with pink or white aromatic berries. Ruled by Venus, myrtle is a plant associated with love, peace, fertility and youth.

Myrtle has lots of literary references as well: in Thomas Hardy's The Hand of Ethelberta, Theodore Dreiser's The Genius, P. G. Wodehouse's Meet Mr Mulliner, and especially The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's Myrtle Wilson has been played on film by actresses as varies as Shelley Winters, Karen Black and Isla Fisher.

# 945 in the US

Myrtle Rank in US Top 1000

# 738 on Nameberry

Myrtle Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Myrtle Popularity

Famous People Named Myrtle

  • (Josephine) Myrtle Corbin
    American entertainer with dipygus
  • Myrtle Alice Cook
    Canadian Olympic track athlete
  • Myrtle Devenish
    Welsh actress
  • Mary Caroline "Myrtle" Page Fillmore
    American Christian author
  • Myrtle Gonzalez
    American actress
  • Myrtle McAteer
    American tennis player
  • Myrtle Reed
    American poet
  • Myrtle Olive Felix Robertson
    11th Baroness Wharton, English photographer
  • Myrtle Stedman
    American actress
  • Myrtle Vail
    American actress
  • Myrtle Sharon Mary Augee
    English shot putter
  • Myrtle Abigail Porlucas Sarrosa
    Filipina actress and TV personality
  • Myrtle Bonjean
    Alpart, girl in the 2012 documentary "Sexy Baby"

Myrtle in Pop Culture

  • Myrtle Elizabeth Warren aka Moaning Myrtle
    character from the "Harry Potter" series
  • Myrtle Wilson
    character in book/film "The Great Gatsby"
  • Myrtle the turtle
    the biggest turtle in Boston's aquarium
  • Myrtle Fargate
    character on American soap "All My Children"
  • Myrtle Hazard
    orphan brought from tropics to live in New England and reared by her spinster aunt in "The Guardian Angel" (1868) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Myrtle Snow
    character on TV's "American Horror Story , Coven".
  • Myrtle Edmonds
    the mean girl in the "Lilo & Stitch" series
  • Myrtle 'Tilly' Dunnage
    character in "The Dressmaker"
  • Myrtle "Myrt" Spear
    main character in radio serial "Myrt and Marge," played by Myrtle Vail
  • Myrtle Beach
    South Carolina, USA