Meaning not yet researched.
Misha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,252 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,252 in 1972; #3,236 in 2025. About 82% of babies named Misha in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,236 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #1,252.
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Misha: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,252 in 1972 · most girls in one year: 135 (1991).
In 2025, 49 US girls were named Misha, making it the 3,236th most common girls’ name of the year, down 978 places from #2,258 in 2024. That is 34 fewer than the 83 girls named Misha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,252, reached in 1972. The most girls given the name in a single year was 135, in 1991. For comparison, it was #2,398 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Misha, making it the 7,516th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,325 places from #5,191 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 19 boys named Misha in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,998, reached in 1993. The most boys given the name in a single year was 38, in 2021. For comparison, it was #4,496 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Misha in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 6 babies. In all, 4,858 US babies have been given the name, 88% of them girls and 12% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,025 babies named Misha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 881 US girls were named Misha; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 117. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,801 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Myesha (3,392 babies since 1880), Miesha (2,552 babies since 1880), Myisha (1,551 babies since 1880) and Myeisha (1,088 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mesha, Meisha and Myiesha are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mesha (1,187), Meisha (1,048), Myiesha (657), Mysha (581), Meosha (500), Meesha (363), Miasha (114), Myosha (101), Miosha (92), Mieisha (56), Measha (33), Mishay (33), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Misha in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,236 | 11 | #7,516 |
| 2024 | 83 | #2,258 | 19 | #5,191 |
| 2023 | 82 | #2,264 | 22 | #4,689 |
| 2022 | 105 | #1,914 | 26 | #4,155 |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,205 | 38 | #3,158 |
| 2020 | 90 | #2,059 | 27 | #3,887 |
| 2019 | 101 | #1,946 | 24 | #4,299 |
| 2018 | 98 | #2,007 | 25 | #4,177 |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,788 | 20 | #4,877 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,533 | 14 | #6,239 |
| 2015 | 77 | #2,398 | 22 | #4,496 |
| 2014 | 72 | #2,509 | 9 | #8,574 |
| 2013 | 84 | #2,228 | 11 | #7,380 |
| 2012 | 98 | #1,994 | 14 | #6,209 |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,408 | 6 | #11,799 |
| 2010 | 73 | #2,532 | 12 | #6,959 |
| 2009 | 110 | #1,911 | 10 | #8,106 |
| 2008 | 88 | #2,247 | 7 | #10,658 |
| 2007 | 96 | #2,112 | 8 | #9,466 |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,339 | 6 | #11,590 |
| 2005 | 83 | #2,220 | 15 | #5,482 |
| 2004 | 68 | #2,499 | 7 | #9,615 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,386 | 6 | #10,445 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,446 | 11 | #6,385 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,168 | 11 | #6,293 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,141 | 5 | #11,586 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,267 | 9 | #6,917 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,613 | — | — |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,686 | — | — |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,362 | 13 | #4,797 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,176 | 13 | #4,710 |
| 1994 | 61 | #2,203 | 6 | #8,449 |
| 1993 | 82 | #1,791 | 23 | #2,998 |
| 1992 | 104 | #1,519 | 7 | #7,161 |
| 1991 | 135 | #1,255 | 7 | #7,028 |
| 1990 | 126 | #1,297 | 11 | #4,892 |
| 1989 | 113 | #1,364 | 9 | #5,453 |
| 1988 | 60 | #2,003 | 6 | #6,981 |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,641 | 7 | #5,887 |
| 1986 | 67 | #1,747 | 6 | #6,462 |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,065 | 9 | #4,568 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,857 | 11 | #3,848 |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,789 | 6 | #5,980 |
| 1982 | 70 | #1,648 | 11 | #3,866 |
| 1981 | 81 | #1,496 | 11 | #3,771 |
| 1980 | 103 | #1,264 | 9 | #4,382 |
| 1979 | 94 | #1,330 | 6 | #5,821 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,882 | — | — |
| 1977 | 58 | #1,769 | 5 | #6,512 |
| 1976 | 67 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1975 | 60 | #1,635 | 6 | #5,241 |
| 1974 | 59 | #1,609 | 5 | #5,740 |
| 1973 | 49 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1972 | 83 | #1,252 | 8 | #3,846 |
| 1971 | 52 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1970 | 40 | #2,068 | 8 | #3,729 |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,284 | — | — |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,601 | 5 | #4,543 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,217 | — | — |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,814 | — | — |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,497 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,467 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,713 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,238 | — | — |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,373 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,020 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,551 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).