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Myra (given name)

The name Myra was created by the 17th-century poet Fulke Greville 1st Barone Brooke (1554–1628). Its origins are unknown, though some speculate the created name is an anagram of the name Mary, a variant spelling of the Latin word myrrha, meaning myrrh, a fragrant resin obtained from a tree, or derived from the Latin mirari, meaning wonder, the same source from which William Shakespeare derived the invented name Miranda.

Origin and meaning

  • English meaning of the name Myra for a girl: poetic invention
  • Greek meaning of the name Myra for a girl: myrrh, an aromatic shrub. Myra is associated with the same "myrrh" that, according to Matthew, was brought as a gift to the infant Jesus by the Magi, along with gold and frankincense.
  • Latin meaning of the name Myra for a girl: variation of Miranda, admirable, extraordinary
  • Arabic meaning of the name Myra for a girl : Aristocratic Lady
  • Hebrew meaning of the name Myra for a girl : Seadew
  • Biblical meaning of the name Myra for a girl : I flow, pour out, weep
  • Sanskrit meaning of the name Myra for a girl : Beloved, Favorable, Admirable.
  • Japanese Kanji meaning of the name Maira 舞良: 舞 means "dance."　良 means "good."

Distribution

The table below provides a detailed overview of the popularity of the female name Myra and variants of this in some of the countries where statistics are available.

People

Actresses

Musicians

Politics

  • Myra Barry (born 1957), Irish Fine Gael politician
  • Myra Jehlen, American Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey
  • Myra Virginia Simmons (1880-1965), American suffragist
  • Myra Freeman (born 1949), Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
  • Myra Ndjoku Manianga, Congo politician
  • Myra McDaniel (1932-2010), the first African American to be the Secretary of State of Texas
  • Myra Tanner Weiss (1917–1997), American Trotskyist
  • Myra Crownover (born 1947), American politician
  • Myra C. Selby (born 1955), American former nominee to be a United States Circuit Judge
  • Myra Wolfgang (1914-1976), American labor leader and women's rights activist between the 1930s and 1970s
  • Myra Sadd Brown (1872-1938), British campaigner for women's rights, an activist and internationalist
  • Myra Curtis (1886–1971), British civil servant

Sports

Writers

Other

  • Myra MacDonald, Scottish journalist
  • Myra Louise Bunce (1854–1919), English designer and painter
  • Myra Bennett (1890–1990), British celebrated nurse
  • Myra Albert Wiggins (1869–1956), American painter and pictorial photographer who became a member of the important early 20th century Photo-Secession movement
  • Myra Kukiiyaut (1929–2006), Inuk artist
  • Myra Landau (1926–2018), Romanian-born artist and abstract painter
  • Myra Juliet Farrell (1878–1957), Australian visionary, inventor and artist
  • Myra Louise Taylor (1881–1939), British nursing superintendent
  • Myra English (1933–2001), Hawaiian entertainer and celebrity tourism promoter
  • Myra Hindley (1942–2002), English serial killer, known as one of the perpetrators of the Moors murders
  • Myra Wilson, British computer scientist
  • Myra Soble (1904–1992), Russian spy
  • Myra Marx Ferree (born 1949), former professor of sociology and director of the Center for German and European Studies
  • Myra Hart, founder of Staples Inc.
  • Myra Kinch (1904–1981), American dancer
  • Myra Knox (1853–1915), Canadian-born American physician
  • Myra Kraft (1942–2011), American philanthropist
  • Myra Shackley (born 1949), British professor
  • Myra Reynolds (1853–1936), American literary scholar
  • Myra Reynolds Richards (1882–1934), American sculptor and teacher
  • Myra Sidharta (born 1927), Chinese psychologist
  • Myra B. Spafard (1864–1940), American artist
  • Myra Clark Gaines (1804–1885), American socialite and plaintiff
  • Myra Kingman (1873–1922), American journalist
  • Myra Smith Kearse (1899–1982), American physician and community leader in New Jersey
  • Myra Adele Logan (1908–1977), American physician, surgeon and anatomist who was the first woman to perform open heart surgery
  • Myra Butter (1925–2022), British aristocrat and thoroughbred racehorse owner
  • Myra Greene is an American photographer

Fictional characters

See also

References