Myra is a name with a literary birth: the Elizabethan poet Fulke Greville appears to have coined it around 1600, likely from the Greek myron, myrrh or sweet perfume, or as a graceful rearrangement of Mary. In modern South Asian use it is also linked to a Sanskrit sense of beloved.
Either way it is soft, elegant and lightly fragrant, with a timeless, cross-cultural appeal.
Sweet-sounding and quietly poetic, Myra is beloved in more ways than one.
Myra does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Myra reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.