The uncommon name Myraline was a one-hit wonder in the U.S. baby name data mid-1920s:
- 1926: unlisted
- 1925: unlisted
- 1924: 6 baby girls named Myraline [debut]
- 1923: unlisted
- 1922: unlisted
Where did it come from?
A precocious toddler from Covington, Kentucky.
Her name was Myraline Allen, and she was an 18-month-old who, according to the newspapers, “already knows the alphabet and identified and plainly spoke each name when asked by different spectators in a recent extensive test.”
I can’t find any other record of Myraline, so I can’t tell you what became of her. But I can make an educated guess that the babies named after Myraline in 1924 were from small towns, as this was a photo distributed by the Autocaster service, which provided content and advertising to rural newspapers.
What are your thoughts on the baby name Myraline?
Source: “Your Baby Can Be Wonder Baby Too, if…” Highland Recorder 3 Oct. 1924: 3.
My name is Myraline. I was named after my aunt born in 1924, in New Orleans. As the story goes, my grandmother befriended a woman in the French Quarter whose name was Myraline, so she named her first born girl Myraline. Not sure of the original pronunciation of the name, I have been called so many different variations of Myraline over the years. As an adult, I decided on the pronunciation of Myra-lean, as in the product known as Vaseline.
Thank you for stopping by, Myraline! :)
All very interesting. Thank You for sharing.