Myrtice
Feminine · “myrtle”
The myrtle was sacred to the goddess of love. Aphrodite's plant in Greece and Venus's in Rome, it was woven into wedding wreaths for two thousand years and is still carried in some royal bouquets. Myrtice takes that plant name and gives it a Latin-looking ending that the Latin never had.
How old is the name Myrtice?
Myrtice first appears in US birth records in 1881 — 144 years ago. The typical Myrtice alive today was born around 1924, making them about 101 years old. About 800 people named Myrtice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Myrtice most popular?
Myrtice peaked in 1907, reaching #529 nationally. See the whole 1907 chart.
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Where it comes from
From myrtos to Myrtice
The story of Myrtice
Victorian flower naming was a genuine fashion with rules — the plants chosen carried meanings from the language of flowers, and myrtle meant love and fidelity, which made it a wedding plant rather than a funeral one. American families then did to those names what they did to every name: extended them. Myrtice, Myrtis and Myrtie all appear in southern records around the turn of the last century, and the -ice ending gives the plant a shape that looks classical without being so.
Meaning
myrtle
Greek myrtos gives Latin myrtus and English myrtle, and the plant is an evergreen shrub with white flowers native to the Mediterranean. Its association with Aphrodite is ancient and well documented. Myrtle became an English given name in the nineteenth century along with Violet, Daisy and Ivy; Myrtice is an American extension of it, and the -ice ending is decorative rather than meaningful.
How the name formed
- myrtos
- myrtus
- Myrtle
- Myrtice
Pronouncing Myrtice
MUR-tiss
MUR-tiss, two syllables, stress at the front, the ending a soft s rather than a hard one. Some say it to rhyme with nice, which the spelling permits; the short reading is much the commoner.
Nicknames for Myrtice
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1881
- Most girls named
- 1924149 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #529reached in 1907
- Change vs 1970
- 0.0%5 in 1981, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Myrtices among us
people named Myrtice are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Myrtice sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The plant is real, its associations are documented, and the story is a pleasant one.
- Myrtle is available as a plainer alternative with the same source.
- Two syllables with a firm front stress, which carries a long surname easily.
- The ending is read two ways and the spelling does not decide.
- The name belongs firmly to an earlier American century and has not returned.
- Myrtis and Myrtie are close neighbors and get substituted.
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- How many Myrtices are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Myrtice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Myrtice is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Myrtice will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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