Myra (given name)
The name Myra was created by the 17th-century poet Fulke Greville 1st Barone Brooke. 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.
Origin and meaning
- 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
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 | that. 0.4% | that. 4. | ||||
| Honduras | Maira | 9. | |||||
| India | Myra | 12. | |||||
| Ecuador | Mayra | 20 664 | 0,3 % | 24. | |||
| India | Mayra | 25. | |||||
| Zimbabwe | Moira | that. 0.4% | that. 32. | ||||
| Nicaragua | Mayra | 7 128 | 0,2 % | 33. | |||
| Colombia | Maira | that. 0.3% | 50. | ||||
| Argentina | Maira | that. 0.3% | 91. | ||||
| South Africa | Moira | that. 100,000 | that. 0.6% | that. 93. | |||
| Philippines | Myra | that. 80,000 | that. 0.2% | that. 169. | |||
| Great Britain | Moira | that. 40,000 | that. 0.1% | that. 187. | |||
| Great Britain | Myra | that. 30,000 | that. 0.08% | that. 225. | |||
| Germany | Maira | 324. | |||||
| USA | Myra | 60 386 | 0,04 % | 385. | |||
| Germany | Mayra | 420. | |||||
| Sweden | Myra | 13 | 0,03 % | 472. | |||
| Netherlands | Mayra | 26 | 0,03 % | 512. | |||
| USA | Mayra | 27 174 | 0,02 % | 635. | |||
| Netherlands | Myra | 15 | 0,02 % | 806. | |||
| Netherlands | Moira | 14 | 0,02 % | 846. |
People
Actresses
- Myra Turley, American actress
- Myra Keaton, American actress
- Myra Hemmings, American actress
- Myra Carter, American actress
- Myra De Groot, British actress
- Myra Frances, British actress
- Myra McFadyen, Scottish actress
- Myra Singh Indian child actress
Musicians
- Myra Melford, American jazz pianist and composer
- Myra Taylor (singer), American jazz singer and songwriter
- Myra Hess, British pianist
- Myra Maimoh, Cameroon singer
- Myra Merritt, American operatic soprano
- Myra Molloy, Thai singer-songwriter and actress
- Myra Mortimer, American contralto
- Myra Brooks Turner, American composer and music educator
- Myra Barnes, the birth name of Vicki Anderson, American soul singer
Politics
- Myra Barry, Irish Fine Gael politician
- Myra Jehlen, American Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Myra Virginia Simmons, American suffragist
- Myra Freeman, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
- Myra Ndjoku Manianga, Congo politician
- Myra McDaniel, the first African American to be the Secretary of State of Texas
- Myra Tanner Weiss, American Trotskyist
- Myra Crownover, American politician
- Myra C. Selby, American former nominee to be a United States Circuit Judge
- Myra Wolfgang, American labor leader and women's rights activist between the 1930s and 1970s
- Myra Sadd Brown, British campaigner for women's rights, an activist and internationalist
- Myra Curtis, British civil servant
Sports
- Myra Moller, New Zealander cyclist
- Myra Wood, American lawn bowls international
- Myra Lakdawala, American-born former athlete for Pakistan
- Myra Nimmo, Scottish athlete and academic
- Myra Blackwelder, American professional golfer
Writers
- Myra Schneider, British poet
- Myra Sklarew, American poet, teacher and biologist
- Myra Morris, Australian poet, novelist, and writer for children
- Myra Taylor (scriptwriter), British television scriptwriter
- Myra MacPherson, American author
- Myra Kelly, Irish-American author and schoolteacher
- Myra Nye, American writer
- Myra Bairstow, American writer
- Myra Bradwell, American publisher and political activist
- Myra Douglas, American writer, poet
- Myra Sajid, Pakistani dramatist, playwright and scriptwriter
- Myra Orth, American art historian
- Myra Belle Martin, American teacher, writer, and financier
- Myra Bradwell Helmer Pritchard, American writer and golfer
- Myra Gale Brown, American author
- Myra Roper, British-born Australian author and broadcaster
Other
- Myra MacDonald, Scottish journalist
- Myra Louise Bunce, English designer and painter
- Myra Bennett, British celebrated nurse
- Myra Albert Wiggins, American painter and pictorial photographer who became a member of the important early 20th century Photo-Secession movement
- Myra Kukiiyaut, Inuk artist
- Myra Landau, Romanian-born artist and abstract painter
- Myra Juliet Farrell, Australian visionary, inventor and artist
- Myra Louise Taylor, British nursing superintendent
- Myra English, Hawaiian entertainer and celebrity tourism promoter
- Myra Hindley, English serial killer, known as one of the perpetrators of the Moors murders
- Myra Wilson, British computer scientist
- Myra Soble, Russian spy
- Myra Marx Ferree, former professor of sociology and director of the Center for German and European Studies
- Myra Hart, founder of Staples Inc.
- Myra Kinch, American dancer
- Myra Knox, Canadian-born American physician
- Myra Kraft, American philanthropist
- Myra Shackley, British professor
- Myra Reynolds, American literary scholar
- Myra Reynolds Richards, American sculptor and teacher
- Myra Sidharta, Chinese psychologist
- Myra B. Spafard, American artist
- Myra Clark Gaines, American socialite and plaintiff
- Myra Kingman, American journalist
- Myra Smith Kearse, American physician and community leader in New Jersey
- Myra Adele Logan, American physician, surgeon and anatomist who was the first woman to perform open heart surgery
- Myra Butter, British aristocrat and thoroughbred racehorse owner
- Myra Greene is an American photographer
Fictional characters
- Myra, a minor character in the Divergent books
- Myra Booth, a character in TV series Coronation Street
- Myra Breckinridge, the name of the main character and 1968 novel by Gore Vidal
- Myra Bruhl, a character in the play Deathtrap and in the film version with the same name
- Myra Castellanos, a character in the video game series The Evil Within
- Myra Driscoll Henshawe, a character in the 1926 novel My Mortal Enemy by Willa Carther
- Myra Licht, a character in the BBC comedy series Episodes
- Myra McQueen, a character in TV series Hollyoaks
- Myra Menke, a character in the book Holes by Louis Sachar
- Myra Monkhouse, a character in TV series Family Matters
- Myra Santelli, from the 2012 movie Girl vs. Monster
- Myra Sokolov, a character in the animated series ''Totally Spies!''