Baby name
REVIVING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Myrtle
/MUR · tel/
Meaning
“Myrtle”
From the myrtle plant, sacred to Aphrodite in ancient Greece and associated with love and immortality; a Victorian botanical name that felt stuffy for decades but is now re-emerging.
Nicknames
myrt
Vibe
warm
How it ages.
Peaked in Victorian and Edwardian eras; now old enough to feel genuinely fresh again.
The cultural moment.
Top names in England and the US around 1900; nearly extinct by 1960 but attracting revival interest since 2020.