Mysha
Mysha was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,387 among girls’ names; 581 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mysha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mysha?
#7,387 among girls’ names, 2025
Mysha rose from #7,500 in 2015 to #7,387 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 9.3 per million.
40 babies in 2011, the peak
Mysha peaked in 2011, when 40 girls were given it, #3,819 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,387 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,250 | 15.4 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,529 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,751 | 13.4 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,883 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,359 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,617 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,424 | 18.8 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,970 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,597 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,500 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,371 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,843 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,795 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,819 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,566 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,260 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,293 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,865 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,577 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,203 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,577 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,851 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,718 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,808 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,213 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,347 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,971 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,492 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,643 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,395 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,832 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,578 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,158 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,848 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,935 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,796 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,034 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,938 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,922 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,333 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mysha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mysha 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 Mysha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mysha, and how old are they?
An estimated 575 Americans named Mysha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 466 people named Mysha (465 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 454 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Mysha?
Mysha is a less common spelling of Misha: SSA has recorded 581 Mysha and 4,858 Misha since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,589 babies since 1880, Mysha is the eighth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 75 babies (20%), the second most given that year.
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 Mysha
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 Mysha and names like it
- Compare Mysha and MishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMysha peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mysha since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Mysha.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mysha alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.