Jump to content

Myra (given name)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Myra
GenderFemale
Other names
Related namesMiranda, Mira, Myron

The name Myra was created by the 17th-century poet Fulke Greville 1st Barone Brooke (1554–1628). Its origins are unknown, though some speculate the created name is an anagram of the name Mary, a variant spelling of the Latin word myrrha, meaning myrrh, a fragrant resin obtained from a tree, or derived from the Latin mirari, meaning wonder, the same source from which William Shakespeare derived the invented name Miranda.[1]

Origin and meaning

[edit]
  • English meaning of the name Myra for a girl: poetic invention
  • Greek meaning of the name Myra for a girl: myrrh, an aromatic shrub. Myra is associated with the same "myrrh" that, according to Matthew, was brought as a gift to the infant Jesus by the Magi, along with gold and frankincense.
  • Latin meaning of the name Myra for a girl: variation of Miranda, admirable, extraordinary
  • Arabic meaning of the name Myra for a girl : Aristocratic Lady
  • Hebrew meaning of the name Myra for a girl : Seadew
  • Biblical meaning of the name Myra for a girl : I flow, pour out, weep
  • Sanskrit meaning of the name Myra for a girl : Beloved, Favorable, Admirable.
  • Japanese Kanji meaning of the name Maira 舞良: 舞 means "dance." 良 means "good."

Distribution

[edit]

The table below provides a detailed overview of the popularity of the female name Myra and variants of this in some of the countries where statistics are available.

Land Name form Number of

women

Percentage

of women

Ranking

women

Number of

girls

Percentage

of girls

Ranking

girls

Saint Lucia Myra (2005) that. 0.4% that. 4 .
Honduras Maira (2010) 9.
India Myra (2012) 12.
Ecuador Mayra 20 664 (2013) 0,3 % 24.
India Mayra (2012) 25.
Zimbabwe Moira (2012) that. 0.4% that. 32 .
Nicaragua Mayra 7 128 (2003) 0,2 % 33.
Colombia Maira (2010) that. 0.3% 50.
Argentina Maira (2005) that. 0.3% 91.
South Africa Moira that. 100,000 (2012) that. 0.6% that. 93 .
Philippines Myra that. 80,000 (2012) that. 0.2% that. 169 .
Great Britain Moira that. 40,000 (2005) that. 0.1% that. 187 .
Great Britain Myra that. 30,000 (2005) that. 0.08% that. 225 .
Germany Maira (2012) 324.
USA Myra 60 386 (1990) 0,04 % 385.
Germany Mayra (2012) 420.
Sweden Myra 13 (2012) 0,03 % 472.
Netherlands Mayra 26 (2007) 0,03 % 512.
USA Mayra 27 174 (1990) 0,02 % 635.
Netherlands Myra 15 (2007) 0,02 % 806.
Netherlands Moira 14 (2007) 0,02 % 846.

People

[edit]

Actresses

[edit]

Musicians

[edit]

Politics

[edit]
  • Myra Barry (born 1957), Irish Fine Gael politician
  • Myra Jehlen, American Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey
  • Myra Virginia Simmons (1880-1965), American suffragist
  • Myra Freeman (born 1949), Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
  • Myra Ndjoku Manianga, Congo politician
  • Myra McDaniel (1932-2010), the first African American to be the Secretary of State of Texas
  • Myra Tanner Weiss (1917–1997), American Trotskyist
  • Myra Crownover (born 1947), American politician
  • Myra C. Selby (born 1955), American former nominee to be a United States Circuit Judge
  • Myra Wolfgang (1914-1976), American labor leader and women's rights activist between the 1930s and 1970s
  • Myra Sadd Brown (1872-1938), British campaigner for women's rights, an activist and internationalist
  • Myra Curtis (1886–1971), British civil servant

Sports

[edit]

Writers

[edit]

Other

[edit]

Fictional characters

[edit]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 199. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.