Myra (given name)

Myra
Gender	Female
Other names
Related names	Mira, Myron

Myra (pronounced /ˈmaɪərə/ US dict: mī′·rə) is а female given name in the English-speaking world. The male equivalent is Myron.

The name was created by the 17th-century poet Fulke Greville 1st Barone Brooke (1554–1628). He possibly based it on Latin myrra meaning "myrrh". Myrrh is a fragrant resin obtained from a tree.

The name may also mean Margaret, as it can be the Anglicized version of Mairead, the Scottish version of that name.^[1]

Origin and Meaning

English meaning of the name Myra for a girl: poetic invention

Greek meaning of the name Myra for a girl: fragrant from myrrh, an aromatic shrub

Latin meaning of the name Myra for a girl: variation of Miranda, admirable, extraordinary

People

• Myra Albert Wiggins (1869–1956), American painter and pictorial photographer
• Myra Barry (born 1957), Irish Fine Gael politician
• Myra Bennett (1890–1990)
• Myra Bradwell (1831–1894)
• Myra Gale Brown (born 1944)
• Myra Carter (born 1930), American actress
• Myra De Groot (1937–1988)
• Myra English (1933–2001), Hawaiian entertainer and celebrity tourism promoter
• Myra English (1933–2001)
• Myra Marx Ferree (born 1949)
• Myra Frances (born 1943), British actress
• Myra Freeman (born 1949), Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
• Myra Hart
• Myra Hemmings (1895–1968)
• Myra Hess (1890–1965), British pianist
• Myra Keaton (1877–1955)
• Myra Kinch (1904–1981)
• Myra Kraft
• Myra Landau (born 1926)
• Myra Maimoh (born 1982)
• Myra Ndjoku Manianga
• Myra Melford (born 1957)
• Myra Merritt
• Myra Moller (born 1983)
• Myra Nicholson (1894–2007), Australian supercentenarian
• Myra Schneider
• Myra Shackley
• Myra Sidharta (born 1927)
• Myra Sklarew
• Myra Soble (born 1904), Russian spy
• Myra Louise Taylor (1881–1939)
• Myra Turley, American actress
• Myra Tanner Weiss (1917–1997)
• Myra Wilson

References

1. ^ Details for the forename Myra

See also

• Myra (disambiguation)

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