Mishka — #5502 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Mishka

The Social Security Administration has registered 738 babies named Mishka between 1993 and 2024, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mishka currently holds the #5502 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 80 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mishka performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 426 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Mishka shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 116 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Mishka in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mishka 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 738 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.