Missouri
Missouri was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,760 among girls’ names; 1,602 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Missouri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Missouri?
#12,760 among girls’ names, 2025
Missouri entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,760 in 2025.
40 babies in 1889, the peak
Missouri peaked in 1889, when 40 girls were given it, #383 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,760 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,823 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,607 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,896 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,012 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,065 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,520 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,381 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,933 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,952 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | #19,581 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,630 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,263 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,363 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,450 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,048 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,636 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,714 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,270 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,604 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,074 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,074 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,465 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,912 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,091 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,720 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,787 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,078 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,190 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,532 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,644 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,348 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,257 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,118 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,327 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,529 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,850 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,689 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,719 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,995 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,755 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,563 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,431 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,930 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,355 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 38 | #1,272 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,499 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 37 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,630 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 38 | #1,174 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 31 | #1,324 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,389 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,294 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 20 | #1,297 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 27 | #995 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 24 | #891 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 24 | #838 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 28 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,025 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 20 | #833 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 24 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 21 | #796 | 0.08 |
| 1903 | 28 | #638 | 0.11 |
| 1902 | 33 | #580 | 0.12 |
| 1901 | 18 | #789 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 24 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1899 | 18 | #782 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 23 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 14 | #885 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 25 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1895 | 16 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1894 | 30 | #533 | 0.13 |
| 1893 | 28 | #529 | 0.13 |
| 1892 | 31 | #493 | 0.15 |
| 1891 | 19 | #621 | 0.10 |
| 1890 | 26 | #519 | 0.14 |
| 1889 | 40 | #383 | 0.22 |
| 1888 | 37 | #408 | 0.21 |
| 1887 | 29 | #407 | 0.20 |
| 1886 | 30 | #398 | 0.21 |
| 1885 | 24 | #436 | 0.18 |
| 1884 | 23 | #422 | 0.18 |
| 1883 | 20 | #431 | 0.18 |
| 1882 | 21 | #399 | 0.19 |
| 1881 | 17 | #413 | 0.18 |
| 1880 | 23 | #339 | 0.25 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Missouri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Missouri has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 88 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Missouri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Missouri, and how old are they?
An estimated 194 Americans named Missouri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 10 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 279 people named Missouri (269 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 218 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Missouri
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 Missouri and names like it
- Compare Missouri and MertieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1880sMissouri peaked in 1889.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Missouri since 1910.
- The top names of 1889The year the most babies were named Missouri.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Missouri alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.