Girls' name · since 1959
Millisa
255 babies named Millisa in U.S. Social Security records since 1959, with the highest year being 1971. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 255
- total births
- 1959–1993
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 52%
- born in that decade
Millisa is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 255 have been recorded since 1959.
Millisa has 255 recorded births among girls since 1959, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1959 to 1993.
- 255 total births
- 1959–1993 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 52% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Millisa's 255 recorded births place it above 76% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Millisa's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Millisa's SSA record in two at 1976 and the more recent half accounts for 42% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 58%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1959, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1971 peak of 20, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Millisa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1959–1993
- Peak year (1971)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 35 years of records
Millisa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Millisa's strongest decade.
133 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 52% of all-time use.
Millisa births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 5
1950s
5 births
- 1960s
1960s
55 births
- 1970s
1970s
133 births
- 1980s
1980s
56 births
- 1990s 6
1990s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 133 births (52% of all-time use).
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- Millisa's decade-level peak was the 1970s (133 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1959–1993 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Millisa: Baby Name Since 1959 - 255 Births, Peak 1971." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/millisa. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Millisa draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.