girls:
84.6k births since 1944
#416 (93rd percentile)
boys:
237 births since 1971
#4349 (5th percentile)
overall:
84.8k births since 1944
#761 (90th percentile)
The name Misty is the #761 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 84,819 recorded births since 1944. This represents the 90.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #416 (92.7% percentile) for all time with 84,582 births since 1944. For boys, it ranks #4,349 (5.1% percentile) for all time with 237 births since 1971.
Misty first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1944 (1944 for girls and 1971 for boys). Birth data for Misty is available in 79 out of the 80 years between 1944 and 2023 (79 years for girls and 18 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Misty has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Misty reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 94.9% percentile (ranked #40) with 3,839 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 3,839 births per million (ranked 94.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1979, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Misty ranks #927 for girls (2.1% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 0.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Misty reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #666) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 15 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Misty".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Misty is pronounced as MIH-stee, which has 2 syllables.
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