Meaning not yet researched.
Missy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #541 in 1967.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #541 in 1967; #5,850 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Missy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,850 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1967, at #541.
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Missy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #541 in 1967 · most girls in one year: 303 (1967).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Missy, making it the 5,850th most common girls’ name of the year, up 477 places from #6,327 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 19 girls named Missy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #541, reached in 1967. That year also had the most girls given the name: 303. For comparison, it was #11,561 in 2015 and #2,741 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Missy in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 5 babies. In all, 5,776 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 2,362 babies named Missy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 142 US girls were named Missy; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Melissa (762,623 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Missie, Missi and Missey are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Melissa.
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: Missie (870), Missi (222), Missey (72).
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.
Missy is listed as a nickname for Melissa, Millicent.
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 | 21 | #5,850 | — | — |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,327 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,924 | — | — |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,914 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,828 | — | — |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,838 | — | — |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,546 | — | — |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,034 | — | — |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,355 | — | — |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,618 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,561 | — | — |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,810 | — | — |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,033 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,202 | — | — |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,035 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,623 | — | — |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,956 | — | — |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,292 | — | — |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,403 | — | — |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,120 | — | — |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,792 | — | — |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,334 | — | — |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,235 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,154 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,209 | — | — |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,870 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,063 | — | — |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,750 | — | — |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,766 | — | — |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,694 | — | — |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,065 | — | — |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,790 | — | — |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,477 | — | — |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,135 | — | — |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,686 | — | — |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,702 | — | — |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,396 | — | — |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 1986 | 68 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,778 | — | — |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 1983 | 55 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 1982 | 82 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1981 | 121 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1980 | 175 | #877 | — | — |
| 1979 | 91 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1978 | 83 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 1977 | 100 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1976 | 108 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1975 | 102 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1974 | 109 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1973 | 155 | #841 | — | — |
| 1972 | 174 | #788 | — | — |
| 1971 | 216 | #708 | — | — |
| 1970 | 268 | #629 | — | — |
| 1969 | 271 | #606 | — | — |
| 1968 | 287 | #564 | — | — |
| 1967 | 303 | #541 | — | — |
| 1966 | 239 | #614 | — | — |
| 1965 | 220 | #666 | — | — |
| 1964 | 223 | #688 | — | — |
| 1963 | 215 | #691 | — | — |
| 1962 | 227 | #685 | — | — |
| 1961 | 191 | #754 | — | — |
| 1960 | 186 | #749 | — | — |
| 1959 | 132 | #912 | — | — |
| 1958 | 127 | #915 | — | — |
| 1957 | 90 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1956 | 62 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,885 | — | — |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,741 | — | — |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,331 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,077 | — | — |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,623 | — | — |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,701 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,592 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,151 | — | — |
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).