Myisha
Myisha was last recorded in 2013, when 8 babies were given it; 1,551 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Myisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 33 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Myisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Myisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,801, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
77 babies in 1980, the peak
Myisha peaked in 1980, when 77 girls were given it, #1,539 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #12,801 | 4.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,622 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,837 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,941 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,109 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,649 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,091 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,467 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,814 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,230 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 19 | #5,869 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,822 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,514 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,594 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,901 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,572 | 27.9 |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,334 | 31.4 |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,163 | 34.3 |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,091 | 35.3 |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,098 | 34.1 |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,384 | 27.4 |
| 1989 | 61 | #2,059 | 33.1 |
| 1988 | 60 | #2,000 | 33.7 |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,182 | 28.8 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,651 | 42.0 |
| 1985 | 48 | #2,198 | 27.9 |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,216 | 26.7 |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,741 | 37.1 |
| 1982 | 69 | #1,667 | 40.7 |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,952 | 33.0 |
| 1980 | 77 | #1,539 | 46.4 |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,582 | 45.5 |
| 1978 | 61 | #1,721 | 39.8 |
| 1977 | 63 | #1,672 | 41.1 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,809 | 35.5 |
| 1975 | 44 | #2,011 | 30.2 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,659 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,198 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,873 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,382 | 6.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,190 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Myisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Myisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Myisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Myisha, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,551 Americans ever recorded as Myisha. The median Myisha alive today is 40 years old; half are between 33 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 1,150 people named Myisha (1,149 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,513 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 435 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 873 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 184 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8 |
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 Myisha born?
The states with the most babies named Myisha are California, Illinois and Texas, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 397 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 61 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Mississippi | 16 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 15 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Myisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Myisha is most over-represented in California: since 1969 it was given 2.0 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 Myisha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,589 babies since 1880, Myisha is the fourth most given (9.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 75 babies recorded by SSA was a Myisha (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 Myisha
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 Myisha and names like it
- Compare Myisha and MishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMyisha peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Myisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Myisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Myisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.