Myrna is the anglicized form of the Irish *Muirne* — from *muirn* ("beloved, affection, festivity") — the mother of Fionn mac Cumhaill in Irish mythology. **A top-100 US baby name from 1925 to 1947, peaking at #43 in 1936**. **Myrna Loy (1905-1993)** — **American actress; widely known as "The Queen of Hollywood" during the 1930s after a 1936 poll of America's movie theatres crowned her opposite "King" Clark Gable**; her partnership with William Powell as Nick and Nora Charles in MGM's *The Thin Man* (1934) and its five sequels (1936-1947) created one of cinema's first portraits of a witty, equal marriage. **Honorary Academy Award (1991) for lifetime achievement**; over 100 films; received the Kennedy Center Honor (1988). **Myrna Mack Chang (1949-1990)** — Guatemalan anthropologist murdered for her research into the displacement of Indigenous Mayan communities during the civil war; her sister Helen Mack's pursuit of justice produced one of the first successful prosecutions of a military officer for a human-rights crime in Guatemala (1993). **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.
Featured throughout Hollywood's golden age and human-rights history.
Myrna reduces to six — the number of The Thin Man.