Misha — #2252 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Misha

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,206 babies named Misha between 1954 and 2024, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Misha currently holds the #2252 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 135 babies received it in a single year. Misha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 592 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Misha performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 868 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Misha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 660 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Misha in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Misha 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 4,206 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.