Missouri
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 1880 · 23 births
- Debut · girls
- 23 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,602since 1880
Missouri over time
Rank among girls' names. Missouri has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 |
| 2005 | — | |
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| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
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| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 |
| 1954 | #3,490 | 11 |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,552 | 10 |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 |
| 1944 | #2,946 | 10 |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 |
| 1942 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,668 | 11 |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
| 1939 | #2,922 | 9 |
| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 |
| 1937 | #2,448 | 12 |
| 1936 | #2,521 | 11 |
| 1935 | #3,156 | 8 |
| 1934 | #2,187 | 14 |
| 1933 | #2,052 | 15 |
| 1932 | #2,235 | 14 |
| 1931 | #2,427 | 12 |
| 1930 | #1,815 | 20 |
| 1929 | #1,642 | 23 |
| 1928 | #1,680 | 24 |
| 1927 | #1,935 | 20 |
| 1926 | #1,721 | 24 |
| 1925 | #1,535 | 29 |
| 1924 | #1,409 | 34 |
| 1923 | #1,895 | 21 |
| 1922 | #1,342 | 35 |
| 1921 | #1,258 | 38 |
| 1920 | #1,470 | 30 |
| 1919 | #1,242 | 37 |
| 1918 | #1,600 | 25 |
| 1917 | #1,162 | 38 |
| 1916 | #1,298 | 31 |
| 1915 | #1,367 | 27 |
| 1914 | #1,262 | 24 |
| 1913 | #1,274 | 20 |
| 1912 | #978 | 27 |
| 1911 | #1,113 | 16 |
| 1910 | #877 | 24 |
| 1909 | #831 | 24 |
| 1908 | #729 | 28 |
| 1907 | #990 | 15 |
| 1906 | #818 | 20 |
| 1905 | #734 | 24 |
| 1904 | #773 | 21 |
| 1903 | #628 | 28 |
| 1902 | #571 | 33 |
| 1901 | #771 | 18 |
| 1900 | #742 | 24 |
| 1899 | #756 | 18 |
| 1898 | #679 | 23 |
| 1897 | #867 | 14 |
| 1896 | #621 | 25 |
| 1895 | #788 | 16 |
| 1894 | #527 | 30 |
| 1893 | #520 | 28 |
| 1892 | #489 | 31 |
| 1891 | #608 | 19 |
| 1890 | #508 | 26 |
| 1889 | #381 | 40 |
| 1888 | #403 | 37 |
| 1887 | #403 | 29 |
| 1886 | #395 | 30 |
| 1885 | #428 | 24 |
| 1884 | #416 | 23 |
| 1883 | #423 | 20 |
| 1882 | #389 | 21 |
| 1881 | #405 | 17 |
| 1880 | #333 | 23 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Missouri was already there! It came in at #333, and was given to 23 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1942, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Missouri is popular in 1890
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Missouri
- 1,661 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #11,932)
- Biggest jump: 261 spots in 1908 (#990 → #729)
- Biggest drop: 296 spots in 1913 (#978 → #1,274)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #333 (23 births)
- Births halved by 1935, 55 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1880–1910
- Highest: 1 in 3,956 girls born in 1880 were named Missouri (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 17.4% of all girls named Missouri (278) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 264 | #333 (1880) | #398 |
| 1890s | 230 | #489 (1892) | #636 |
| 1900s | 235 | #571 (1902) | #759 |
| 1910s | 269 | #877 (1910) | #1,217 |
| 1920s | 278 | #1,258 (1921) | #1,589 |
| 1930s | 121 | #1,815 (1930) | #2,561 |
| 1940s | 58 | #2,668 (1941) | #3,927 |
| 1950s | 52 | #3,490 (1954) | #4,052 |
| 1960s | 6 | #5,891 (1963) | #5,891 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 17 | #13,606 (2006) | #15,558 |
| 2010s | 36 | #11,781 (2016) | #14,577 |
| 2020s | 36 | #7,630 (2021) | #10,824 |
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.
Missouri in 1890
Top girls' names in 1890
More about 1890
girls
190,377 girls got a published name in 1890; 1 in 7,322 of them was named Missouri, which outranked 66.9% of the 1,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).