Missy
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births
- Peak · girls
- 1967 · 303 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,776since 1943
Missy over time
Rank among girls' names. Missy has never cracked the top 500 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 | #5,722 | 21 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 |
| 2011 | #6,855 | 18 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 16 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 |
| 2005 | #7,500 | 15 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 |
| 1998 | #4,636 | 23 |
| 1997 | #4,660 | 22 |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 |
| 1995 | #3,969 | 26 |
| 1994 | #4,687 | 21 |
| 1993 | #3,158 | 36 |
| 1992 | #4,382 | 23 |
| 1991 | #3,097 | 36 |
| 1990 | #3,623 | 29 |
| 1989 | #2,658 | 42 |
| 1988 | #2,369 | 46 |
| 1987 | #2,199 | 49 |
| 1986 | #1,717 | 68 |
| 1985 | #1,760 | 64 |
| 1984 | #1,837 | 58 |
| 1983 | #1,887 | 55 |
| 1982 | #1,461 | 82 |
| 1981 | #1,134 | 121 |
| 1980 | #875 | 175 |
| 1979 | #1,349 | 91 |
| 1978 | #1,397 | 83 |
| 1977 | #1,214 | 100 |
| 1976 | #1,112 | 108 |
| 1975 | #1,139 | 102 |
| 1974 | #1,076 | 109 |
| 1973 | #839 | 155 |
| 1972 | #784 | 174 |
| 1971 | #707 | 216 |
| 1970 | #629 | 268 |
| 1969 | #605 | 271 |
| 1968 | #563 | 287 |
| 1967 | #540 | 303 |
| 1966 | #614 | 239 |
| 1965 | #666 | 220 |
| 1964 | #687 | 223 |
| 1963 | #689 | 215 |
| 1962 | #682 | 227 |
| 1961 | #753 | 191 |
| 1960 | #749 | 186 |
| 1959 | #909 | 132 |
| 1958 | #911 | 127 |
| 1957 | #1,100 | 90 |
| 1956 | #1,319 | 62 |
| 1955 | #1,480 | 47 |
| 1954 | #1,648 | 38 |
| 1953 | #1,531 | 41 |
| 1952 | #2,806 | 15 |
| 1951 | #2,314 | 19 |
| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 |
| 1949 | #3,176 | 11 |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 |
| 1946 | #2,597 | 14 |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 |
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| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Missy! It came in at #4,691, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1944, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Missy is popular in 1974
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#410 · 1 in 3,254
- Tennessee#527 · 1 in 4,581
- Ohio#680 · 1 in 7,791
- Georgia#718 · 1 in 6,600
- Texas#894 · 1 in 8,677
Best ever in a state: #276 in Indiana, 1969.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #410 | 7 | 1 in 3,254 |
| Tennessee | #527 | 6 | 1 in 4,581 |
| Ohio | #680 | 9 | 1 in 7,791 |
| Georgia | #718 | 5 | 1 in 6,600 |
| Texas | #894 | 11 | 1 in 8,677 |
| Illinois | #1,010 | 6 | 1 in 11,619 |
| California | #1,654 | 6 | 1 in 22,770 |
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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 Missy
- 445 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #5,722)
- 1,837 spots since 2020 (#7,559 → #5,722)
- 5,144 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #5,722)
- Biggest jump: 474 spots in 1980 (#1,349 → #875)
- Biggest drop: 259 spots in 1981 (#875 → #1,134)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 1967 at #540 (303 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1958–1973
- Highest: 1 in 5,449 girls born in 1967 were named Missy (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 76,537 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 40.9% of all girls named Missy (2,362) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 54 | #2,597 (1946) | #3,659 |
| 1950s | 586 | #909 (1959) | #1,667 |
| 1960s | 2,362 | #540 (1967) | #655 |
| 1970s | 1,406 | #629 (1970) | #1,025 |
| 1980s | 760 | #875 (1980) | #1,790 |
| 1990s | 247 | #3,097 (1991) | #4,627 |
| 2000s | 145 | #5,705 (2000) | #7,997 |
| 2010s | 115 | #6,855 (2011) | #9,587 |
| 2020s | 101 | #5,722 (2025) | #6,891 |
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.
Missy in 1974
Top girls' names in 1974
More about 1974
girls
1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 13,464 of them was named Missy, which outranked 89.5% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,070Elana110
- #1,070Gillian110
- #1,070Velma110
- #1,076Missy109
- #1,076Blythe109
- #1,076Charissa109
- #1,076Lenore109
- #1,082Alina108
- #1,082Barbra108
- #1,082Carlene108
Tied with 5 names at #1,076; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.