Misa — #9071 US girls' name
751 babies named Misa in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 2011. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 49% of names given to girls today.
26% of everyone ever named Misa was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Misa in 2011 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Misa
The Social Security Administration has registered 751 babies named Misa between 1968 and 2024, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Misa currently holds the #9071 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 26 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Misa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 192 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Misa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 92 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Misa in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Misa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 751 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Misa at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
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Misa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1968
- Peak year (2011)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 57 years of records
Currently ranks #9071 among girls.
751 total births across 57 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2011 with 26 births in a single year.
Misa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 192 births that decade — 26% of Misa's all-time total
Misa decade highlights
- Peak decade 192 births
- Runner-up 185 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Misa's strongest decade
192 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 26% of all-time use.
Misa by state
Where Misa concentrates geographically — total births since 1968
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 92 | 12.3% |
| #2 | New York | | 15 | 2.0% |
| #3 | Texas | | 5 | 0.7% |
92 of 751 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 12.3% of nationwide
- New York 2.0% of nationwide
- Texas 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 12.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1968–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.