Myre
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmaɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Myre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Myhre.
- NONorway1 in 7.3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 486K
- SESweden1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
744 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Myhre.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Myre counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 744 | 1 in 7.3K | 744 | Myre | 4 |
| US United States | 684 | 1 in 486K | 684 | Myre | 26 |
| SE Sweden | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 1 |
744 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Olav Myreb. 1878NONorwegian journalist and editor
- Mario Myreb. 1908botanist
- Odd Myreb. 1912NONorwegian marketing agent (1912–2005)
- Phil Myreb. 1948CACanadian ice hockey player
- Suzanne Myreb. 1961CACanadian short story writer and writer
- Nadia Myreb. 1974CACanadian artist (born 1974)
- Jon Erik MyreNorwegian actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Myre mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Myhre. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Myre?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmaɪɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Myre have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 744 people named Myre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled myre.
- Where is Myre most common?
- Myre is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Myre?
- In Norway, the national register counted 744 people named Myre, about 1 in 7.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Myre?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/myreThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Myre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.