Girls' name · since 1987
Mishayla
Mishayla has 283 recorded births since 1987 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1996 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 283
- total births
- 1987–2014
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 42%
- born in that decade
283 girls have been named Mishayla since 1987, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Mishayla has 283 recorded births among girls since 1987, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1987 to 2014.
- 283 total births
- 1987–2014 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 42% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mishayla's 283 recorded births place it above 77% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mishayla's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Mishayla splits its recorded history at 2000: 51% of all births land in the more recent half, 49% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1990 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1996 peak of 20 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Mishayla popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1987–2014
- Peak year (1996)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
Mishayla by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Mishayla's strongest decade.
119 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 42% of all-time use.
Mishayla births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 24
1980s
24 births
- 1990s
1990s
115 births
- 2000s
2000s
119 births
- 2010s 25
2010s
25 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 119 births (42% of all-time use).
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- Mishayla's decade-level peak was the 2000s (119 total births); usage has since declined to 25 in the 2010s -- 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, 1987–2014 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mishayla: Baby Name Since 1987 - 283 Births, Peak 1996." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mishayla. 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 Mishayla 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.