Meaning not yet researched.
Misty: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #40 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #40 in 1977; #4,140 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Misty in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,140 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #40.
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Misty: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #40 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 6,315 (1977).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Misty, making it the 4,140th most common girls’ name of the year, down 45 places from #4,095 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 36 girls named Misty in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #40, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 6,315. For comparison, it was #3,202 in 2015 and #2,862 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Misty in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 9 babies. In all, 84,891 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 42,512 babies named Misty.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 341 US girls were named Misty; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Misti (8,324 babies since 1880) and Mistie (2,240 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mysti, Mistee and Mistey 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: Mysti (711), Mistee (250), Mistey (72), Mysty (66), Mistye (15), Missty (10).
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 Misty 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 | 35 | #4,140 | — | — |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,095 | — | — |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,215 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,582 | — | — |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,387 | — | — |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,890 | — | — |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,131 | — | — |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,124 | — | — |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,822 | — | — |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,641 | — | — |
| 2015 | 52 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,730 | — | — |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,829 | — | — |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,701 | — | — |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,409 | — | — |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,666 | — | — |
| 2009 | 103 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,311 | — | — |
| 2007 | 93 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 2006 | 111 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 2005 | 136 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 2004 | 129 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 2003 | 164 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 2002 | 166 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 2001 | 199 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 2000 | 242 | #906 | — | — |
| 1999 | 241 | #888 | — | — |
| 1998 | 308 | #719 | — | — |
| 1997 | 325 | #670 | — | — |
| 1996 | 369 | #619 | — | — |
| 1995 | 412 | #562 | — | — |
| 1994 | 488 | #511 | — | — |
| 1993 | 598 | #416 | — | — |
| 1992 | 741 | #352 | — | — |
| 1991 | 941 | #295 | — | — |
| 1990 | 996 | #279 | — | — |
| 1989 | 1,218 | #226 | 8 | #6,035 |
| 1988 | 1,408 | #194 | — | — |
| 1987 | 1,712 | #162 | 8 | #5,289 |
| 1986 | 1,971 | #145 | 6 | #6,463 |
| 1985 | 2,413 | #121 | 9 | #4,569 |
| 1984 | 2,792 | #98 | 14 | #3,219 |
| 1983 | 3,189 | #87 | 11 | #3,788 |
| 1982 | 4,071 | #74 | 10 | #4,133 |
| 1981 | 4,799 | #61 | 14 | #3,163 |
| 1980 | 5,541 | #49 | 20 | #2,500 |
| 1979 | 5,785 | #42 | 27 | #1,981 |
| 1978 | 5,834 | #43 | 20 | #2,345 |
| 1977 | 6,315 | #40 | 18 | #2,529 |
| 1976 | 5,906 | #46 | 20 | #2,305 |
| 1975 | 5,552 | #47 | 16 | #2,605 |
| 1974 | 4,439 | #66 | 12 | #3,074 |
| 1973 | 3,475 | #90 | 12 | #2,964 |
| 1972 | 2,425 | #125 | 5 | #5,503 |
| 1971 | 1,493 | #200 | 7 | #4,235 |
| 1970 | 1,151 | #266 | — | — |
| 1969 | 949 | #295 | — | — |
| 1968 | 841 | #305 | — | — |
| 1967 | 789 | #307 | — | — |
| 1966 | 680 | #344 | — | — |
| 1965 | 492 | #422 | — | — |
| 1964 | 431 | #467 | — | — |
| 1963 | 342 | #527 | — | — |
| 1962 | 293 | #574 | — | — |
| 1961 | 265 | #628 | — | — |
| 1960 | 212 | #701 | — | — |
| 1959 | 77 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,856 | — | — |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,793 | — | — |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,911 | — | — |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,862 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,788 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,078 | — | — |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,732 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,036 | — | — |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,302 | — | — |
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).