Mischa — #5817 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Mischa

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,667 babies named Mischa between 1953 and 2024, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mischa currently holds the #5817 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 125 babies received it in a single year. Mischa is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 198 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mischa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 545 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Mischa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 224 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Mischa in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mischa 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 1,667 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.