Entry № 7075 · Irish origin

Myrna Myrna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MUR-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Beloved (Myrna Loy, Queen of Hollywood + The Thin Man)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "beloved (myrna loy, queen of hollywood + the thin man)".

Myrna is the anglicized form of the Irish Muirne — from muirn ("beloved, affection, festivity") — the mother of Fionn mac Cumhaill in Irish mythology. Myrna Hansen — Miss USA 1953. Myrna Lim — Filipino singer. Myrna Williams is Myrna Loy's birth name. Saint Murna of Tomgraney — Irish 7th-century abbess.

Beloved. Myrna Loy was crowned "The Queen of Hollywood" opposite King Clark Gable in 1936.

The name in its native script.

Myrna
Transliteration
Myrna
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɜːr.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Myrna stands.

Myrna 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.

Myrnas before her.

Real people
Myrna Loy
American Queen of Hollywood.
1905 – 1993
Myrna Mack Chang
Guatemalan anthropologist.
1949 – 1990
In fiction
Nora Charles
The Thin Man.
1934

Names connected to Myrna.

The number behind Myrna.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Myrna reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.