Myra (name)
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Myra (mī'rə or ´maiərə) 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]
