Girls' name · since 1968
Mistye
Mistye has 15 recorded births since 1968 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1977 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 15
- total births
- 1968–1977
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 60%
- born in that decade
15 girls have been named Mistye since 1968, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Mistye has 15 recorded births among girls since 1968, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1968 to 1977.
- 15 total births
- 1968–1977 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 60% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mistye's 15 recorded births place it above 30% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mistye's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Mistye's full recorded timeline at 1977, 60% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 40% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1968, with just 6 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1977 peak of 9 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Mistye popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1968–1977
- Peak year (1977)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Mistye by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Mistye's strongest decade.
9 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 60% of all-time use.
Mistye births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s
1960s
6 births
- 1970s
1970s
9 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 9 births (60% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1968–1977 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mistye: Baby Name Since 1968 - 15 Births, Peak 1977." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mistye. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mistye draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.