Misa
Misa was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,768 among girls’ names; 765 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Misa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Misa?
#7,768 among girls’ names, 2025
Misa fell from #5,408 in 2015 to #7,768 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 8.7 per million.
26 babies in 2011, the peak
Misa peaked in 2011, when 26 girls were given it, #5,311 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,768 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,363 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,918 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,190 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,592 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,118 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,343 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,323 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,613 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,253 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,408 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,628 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,282 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,792 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,311 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,113 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,240 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,296 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,027 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,761 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,206 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,097 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,463 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,306 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,527 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,439 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,735 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,867 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,148 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,972 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,863 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,945 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,878 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,905 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,929 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,466 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,778 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,276 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,821 | 7.5 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,916 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,198 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,786 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,951 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,647 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,516 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,523 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,822 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,222 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,306 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,666 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,350 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,066 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,355 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,012 | 6.6 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,629 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,039 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Misa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Misa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Misa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Misa, and how old are they?
An estimated 751 Americans named Misa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 12 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,147 people named Misa (1,054 women and girls, 93 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 669 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 7,691 babies since 1880, Misa is the second most given (9.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 43 babies (33%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Misa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Misa and names like it
- Compare Misa and MissyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMisa peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Misa since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Misa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Misa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.