Mitsuye
Mitsuye was last recorded in 1926, when 7 babies were given it; 104 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 1926 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mitsuye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mitsuye mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mitsuye is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Derived from Japanese みつえ (Mitsue).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mitsuye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,170, in 1926; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1921, the peak
Mitsuye peaked in 1921, when 16 girls were given it, #2,350 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 7 | #4,170 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,789 | 4.9 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,768 | 10.4 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,289 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,900 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,350 | 13.0 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,523 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,633 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,430 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,815 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 9 | #3,181 | 8.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mitsuye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mitsuye has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mitsuye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mitsuye, and how old are they?
Almost everyone recorded as Mitsuye was born before 1900, so the estimate of Americans with the name alive today rounds to none. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 666 babies since 1880, Mitsuye is the third most given (16% of them).
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 Mitsuye
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 Mitsuye and names like it
- Compare Mitsuye and MitsueBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMitsuye peaked in 1921.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mitsuye since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Mitsuye: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Mitsuye.
- Names starting with MMost given first.