Mistie — girls' name
2,240 babies named Mistie in U.S. Social Security records since 1960, with the highest year being 1975. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
49% of everyone ever named Mistie was born in this single decade.
142 babies were named Mistie in 1975 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mistie
The Social Security Administration has registered 2,240 babies named Mistie between 1960 and 2009, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mistie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 142 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mistie performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 1,096 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Mistie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 297 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Mistie in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mistie 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 2,240 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.
Mistie at a glance
Last recorded 2009Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Mistie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2009–1960
- Peak year (1975)
- 142
- Annual births at peak — across 50 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2009.
2,240 total births across 50 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1975 with 142 births in a single year.
Mistie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 1,096 births that decade — 49% of Mistie's all-time total
Mistie decade highlights
- Peak decade 1,096 births
- Runner-up 675 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Mistie's strongest decade
1,096 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 49% of all-time use.
Mistie by state
Where Mistie concentrates geographically — total births since 1960
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 297 | 13.3% |
| #2 | California | | 149 | 6.7% |
| #3 | Oklahoma | | 64 | 2.9% |
| #4 | Indiana | | 37 | 1.7% |
| #5 | Tennessee | | 37 | 1.7% |
| #6 | Arkansas | | 31 | 1.4% |
| #7 | Utah | | 31 | 1.4% |
| #8 | Ohio | | 24 | 1.1% |
297 of 2,240 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 19 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 13.3% of nationwide
- California 6.7% of nationwide
- Oklahoma 2.9% of nationwide
- Indiana 1.7% of nationwide
- Tennessee 1.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 19 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 13.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
Mistie appears in 19 states. Explore state details →
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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, 1960–2009 (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.