Misty
#4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #5,615
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 6,315 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 12 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 84,654since 1944
Misty over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,067 | 35 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,039 | 36 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,126 | 25 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,326 | 32 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,841 | 37 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,072 | 35 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,076 | 35 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,769 | 40 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,588 | 43 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,177 | 52 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,714 | 64 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,778 | 40 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,679 | 66 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,395 | 77 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,642 | 68 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,005 | 103 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,295 | 85 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,147 | 93 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,833 | 111 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,519 | 136 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,542 | 129 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,272 | 164 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,213 | 166 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,066 | 199 | — | |
| 2000 | #904 | 242 | — | |
| 1999 | #886 | 241 | — | |
| 1998 | #717 | 308 | — | |
| 1997 | #669 | 325 | — | |
| 1996 | #619 | 369 | — | |
| 1995 | #562 | 412 | — | |
| 1994 | #510 | 488 | — | |
| 1993 | #416 | 598 | — | |
| 1992 | #351 | 741 | — | |
| 1991 | #295 | 941 | — | |
| 1990 | #279 | 996 | — | |
| 1989 | #226 | 1,218 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #194 | 1,408 | — | |
| 1987 | #162 | 1,712 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #145 | 1,971 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #121 | 2,413 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #98 | 2,792 | #3,107 | 14 |
| 1983 | #87 | 3,189 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | #74 | 4,071 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #61 | 4,799 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #49 | 5,541 | #2,444 | 20 |
| 1979 | #42 | 5,785 | #1,943 | 27 |
| 1978 | #43 | 5,834 | #2,279 | 20 |
| 1977 | #40 | 6,315 | #2,458 | 18 |
| 1976 | #46 | 5,906 | #2,245 | 20 |
| 1975 | #47 | 5,552 | #2,540 | 16 |
| 1974 | #66 | 4,439 | #2,946 | 12 |
| 1973 | #90 | 3,475 | #2,857 | 12 |
| 1972 | #125 | 2,425 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #200 | 1,493 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #266 | 1,151 | — | |
| 1969 | #295 | 949 | — | |
| 1968 | #305 | 841 | — | |
| 1967 | #307 | 789 | — | |
| 1966 | #342 | 680 | — | |
| 1965 | #421 | 492 | — | |
| 1964 | #467 | 431 | — | |
| 1963 | #527 | 342 | — | |
| 1962 | #574 | 293 | — | |
| 1961 | #628 | 265 | — | |
| 1960 | #701 | 212 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,214 | 77 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,733 | 39 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,808 | 36 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,151 | 26 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,839 | 33 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,779 | 16 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,431 | 19 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 9 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,781 | 14 | — | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,637 | 15 | — | |
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| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Misty! It came in at #3,139, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945–1946, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Misty is popular in 1968
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Wyoming#74 · 1 in 207
- West Virginia#129 · 1 in 580
- Oklahoma#136 · 1 in 571
- Idaho#138 · 1 in 489
- Indiana#147 · 1 in 737
Best ever in a state: #9 in Arkansas, 1975.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | #74 | 8 | 1 in 207 |
| West Virginia | #129 | 21 | 1 in 580 |
| Oklahoma | #136 | 28 | 1 in 571 |
| Idaho | #138 | 9 | 1 in 489 |
| Indiana | #147 | 54 | 1 in 737 |
| Kansas | #153 | 20 | 1 in 690 |
| Oregon | #177 | 16 | 1 in 819 |
| Utah | #182 | 12 | 1 in 752 |
| South Dakota | #188 | 5 | 1 in 813 |
| Texas | #191 | 108 | 1 in 870 |
| Nebraska | #194 | 10 | 1 in 993 |
| Alabama | #198 | 27 | 1 in 967 |
| Tennessee | #201 | 27 | 1 in 1,080 |
| North Carolina | #202 | 36 | 1 in 1,091 |
| Colorado | #221 | 15 | 1 in 1,037 |
| Iowa | #224 | 16 | 1 in 1,256 |
| Arizona | #241 | 12 | 1 in 1,077 |
| Missouri | #255 | 22 | 1 in 1,495 |
| Georgia | #256 | 25 | 1 in 1,506 |
| New Mexico | #260 | 7 | 1 in 1,094 |
| Florida | #266 | 29 | 1 in 1,457 |
| South Carolina | #269 | 13 | 1 in 1,562 |
| Kentucky | #280 | 12 | 1 in 1,996 |
| Ohio | #293 | 41 | 1 in 2,015 |
| Washington | #301 | 14 | 1 in 1,680 |
| Arkansas | #312 | 7 | 1 in 1,857 |
| Illinois | #327 | 37 | 1 in 2,261 |
| Louisiana | #342 | 15 | 1 in 2,020 |
| Mississippi | #355 | 8 | 1 in 2,255 |
| Wisconsin | #355 | 10 | 1 in 3,256 |
| California | #358 | 72 | 1 in 2,136 |
| Pennsylvania | #399 | 25 | 1 in 3,369 |
| Virginia | #412 | 9 | 1 in 3,662 |
| Minnesota | #430 | 6 | 1 in 4,686 |
| Maryland | #439 | 7 | 1 in 3,612 |
| Michigan | #456 | 16 | 1 in 4,341 |
| New York | #1,027 | 9 | 1 in 15,138 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Misty
- 28 spots since 2024 (#4,039 → #4,067)
- 226 spots since 2020 (#3,841 → #4,067)
- 890 spots since 2015 (#3,177 → #4,067)
- Biggest jump: 513 spots in 1960 (#1,214 → #701)
- Biggest drop: 169 spots in 1999 (#717 → #886)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 1977 at #40 (6,315 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 12 yrs · run 1973–1984
- Top 1,000: 41 yrs · run 1960–2000
- Highest: 1 in 243 girls born in 1977 were named Misty (0.41%)
- Latest: 1 in 45,922 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 50.1% of all girls named Misty (42,375) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 40 | #2,637 (1947) | #4,045 |
| 1950s | 276 | #1,214 (1959) | #2,493 |
| 1960s | 5,294 | #295 (1969) | #457 |
| 1970s | 42,375 | #40 (1977) | #97 |
| 1980s | 29,114 | #49 (1980) | #122 |
| 1990s | 5,419 | #279 (1990) | #530 |
| 2000s | 1,428 | #904 (2000) | #1,580 |
| 2010s | 520 | #2,395 (2011) | #3,289 |
| 2020s | 188 | #3,841 (2020) | #4,477 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Misty in 1968
Top girls' names in 1968
More about 1968
girls
1,640,389 girls got a published name in 1968; 1 in 1,951 of them was named Misty, which outranked 96.3% of the 8,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.