Misti
Misti was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 8,324 Americans have been recorded with it between 1952 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,870 Americans named Misti and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 44 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Misti by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Misti?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,012, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
521 babies in 1975, the peak
Misti peaked in 1975, when 521 girls were given it, #390 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #18,012 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,990 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,421 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,493 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,670 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,087 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,888 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,596 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,525 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,622 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 18 | #5,819 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,101 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,328 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,272 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 55 | #2,379 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,279 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 65 | #2,102 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 81 | #1,790 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 94 | #1,610 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 116 | #1,365 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 121 | #1,304 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 136 | #1,130 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 155 | #1,008 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 186 | #888 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 204 | #806 | 0.12 |
| 1984 | 229 | #722 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 268 | #641 | 0.16 |
| 1982 | 327 | #563 | 0.19 |
| 1981 | 398 | #504 | 0.24 |
| 1980 | 447 | #473 | 0.27 |
| 1979 | 452 | #452 | 0.28 |
| 1978 | 474 | #427 | 0.31 |
| 1977 | 495 | #413 | 0.32 |
| 1976 | 521 | #395 | 0.36 |
| 1975 | 521 | #390 | 0.36 |
| 1974 | 440 | #441 | 0.30 |
| 1973 | 405 | #455 | 0.28 |
| 1972 | 318 | #532 | 0.21 |
| 1971 | 288 | #599 | 0.17 |
| 1970 | 290 | #603 | 0.17 |
| 1969 | 153 | #842 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 132 | #904 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 133 | #891 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 100 | #1,047 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 94 | #1,085 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 83 | #1,218 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 77 | #1,259 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 61 | #1,425 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 45 | #1,708 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,912 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,067 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,892 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,353 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Misti a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Misti has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Misti: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Misti, and how old are they?
7,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 8,324 Americans ever recorded as Misti. The median Misti alive today is 48 years old; half are between 44 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 6,928 people named Misti (6,921 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,991 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 288 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,940 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,450 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 189 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Misti born?
The states with the most babies named Misti are Texas, California and Oklahoma, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,582 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| California | 479 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Oklahoma | 400 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Ohio | 341 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 272 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 270 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Alabama | 218 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Florida | 198 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 196 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 193 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Misti is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Misti is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1952 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Misti with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Misti?
Misti is a less common spelling of Misty: SSA has recorded 8,324 Misti and 84,891 Misty since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 96,797 babies since 1880, Misti is the second most given (8.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 35 babies recorded by SSA was a Misti (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 Misti
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 Misti and names like it
- Compare Misti and MistyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMisti peaked in 1975.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Misti since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Misti.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Misti alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.