Missie
Missie was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 870 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Missie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Missie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,799, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 1968, the peak
Missie peaked in 1968, when 38 girls were given it, #1,966 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,799 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,545 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,780 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,767 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,779 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,606 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,537 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,270 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,876 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,091 | 11.4 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 11 | #6,022 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,400 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,421 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,308 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,720 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,398 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,424 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,490 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,031 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,679 | 15.4 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,192 | 20.2 |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,966 | 23.2 |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,937 | 22.4 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,224 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,880 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,827 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,427 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,786 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,423 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,630 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,066 | 7.9 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,865 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,714 | 4.0 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,001 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,468 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,352 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,858 | 2.9 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,836 | 4.4 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,189 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,613 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,196 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,928 | 6.2 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,207 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,148 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,726 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,318 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,684 | 10.8 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,847 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,650 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,789 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,348 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,752 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,441 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,179 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,339 | 13.2 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,123 | 16.0 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,386 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,072 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,434 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,638 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,596 | 25.1 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,139 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,386 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,338 | 32.7 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,982 | 19.1 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,293 | 34.1 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,425 | 29.2 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,864 | 20.0 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,353 | 30.0 |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,158 | 38.6 |
| 1897 | 12 | #967 | 51.2 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,102 | 42.8 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,442 | 26.9 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,258 | 32.9 |
| 1892 | 12 | #889 | 56.5 |
| 1891 | 12 | #827 | 64.7 |
| 1890 | 10 | #919 | 52.5 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,104 | 39.2 |
| 1886 | 9 | #811 | 62.3 |
| 1885 | 9 | #782 | 67.6 |
| 1884 | 9 | #775 | 69.8 |
| 1883 | 8 | #738 | 71.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Missie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Missie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Missie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Missie, and how old are they?
An estimated 464 Americans named Missie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (53% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 50 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 446 people named Missie (446 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 489 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Missie?
Missie is a less common spelling of Missy: SSA has recorded 870 Missie and 5,776 Missy since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 7,531 babies since 1880, Missie is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 none of their 29 babies recorded by SSA was a Missie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Missie
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 Missie and names like it
- Compare Missie and MissyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMissie peaked in 1968.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Missie since 1910.
- The top names of 1968The year the most babies were named Missie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Missie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.