Misty

Where Misty comes from

From the adjective misty, but sometimes also (like Missy) used as a nickname for Melissa.
— Wiktionary's entry for Misty
  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1944
    First appearance
    #3,139 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Misty May-Treanor born
    American beach volleyball player
  3. 1977
    Peak, #40
    6,315 babies named Misty — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1982
    Misty Copeland born
    American ballet dancer
  5. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #98.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English, reasonably popular in the 1970s and the 1980s.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Melissa.
Namesakes
  • Misty May-Treanor · American beach volleyball player, born 1977
  • Misty Copeland · American ballet dancer, born 1982
  • Misty Stone · American pornographic actress, born 1986
  • Misty Upham · American actress, 1982–2014
  • Misty Hyman · American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder, born 1979

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.