In 2025, 24 US girls were named Mitzi, making it the 5,349th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,938 places from #8,287 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 13 girls named Mitzi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #430, reached in 1955. The most girls given the name in a single year was 469, in 1961. For comparison, it was #5,411 in 2015 and #887 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mitzi in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1906 with 5 babies. In all, 13,200 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 3,900 babies named Mitzi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 169 US girls were named Mitzi; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Mitzie (1,671 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mitzy, Mitsy and Metzi are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Mary, Mittie and Mitty.