Mister — #6245 US boys' name
729 babies named Mister in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 56% of names given to boys today.
27% of everyone ever named Mister was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Mister in 2015 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mister
The Social Security Administration has registered 729 babies named Mister between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mister currently holds the #6245 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 27 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mister performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 196 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Mister shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 47 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Mister in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mister 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 729 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.
Mister at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Mister popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1971
- Peak year (2015)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 54 years of records
Currently ranks #6245 among boys.
729 total births across 54 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2015 with 27 births in a single year.
Mister by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 196 births that decade — 27% of Mister's all-time total
Mister decade highlights
- Peak decade 196 births
- Runner-up 144 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Mister's strongest decade
196 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 27% of all-time use.
Mister by state
Where Mister concentrates geographically — total births since 1971
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 47 | 6.4% |
| #2 | Texas | | 6 | 0.8% |
| #3 | Florida | | 5 | 0.7% |
47 of 729 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 6.4% of nationwide
- Texas 0.8% of nationwide
- Florida 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1971–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.