Mysti
Mysti was last recorded in 2007, when 5 babies were given it; 711 Americans have been recorded with it between 1960 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mysti by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mysti?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,616, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1980, the peak
Mysti peaked in 1980, when 33 girls were given it, #2,779 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | #19,616 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,645 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,038 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,695 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,398 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,658 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,716 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,739 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,849 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,563 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 12 | #7,437 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,503 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,575 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,363 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,177 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,157 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,807 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,464 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,795 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,082 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,177 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,803 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,487 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,211 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,995 | 17.7 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,212 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,779 | 19.9 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,304 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,460 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,816 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,062 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,225 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,735 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,084 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,666 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,856 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,988 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,194 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,028 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,511 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,755 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,208 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,307 | 2.6 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,026 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mysti a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mysti has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mysti: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mysti, and how old are they?
An estimated 681 Americans named Mysti and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 35 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 648 people named Mysti (646 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 689 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below 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 Mysti?
Mysti is a less common spelling of Misty: SSA has recorded 711 Mysti and 84,891 Misty since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 96,475 babies since 1880, Mysti is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 35 babies recorded by SSA was a Mysti (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 Mysti
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 Mysti and names like it
- Compare Mysti and MistyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMysti peaked in 1980.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mysti since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Mysti.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Mysti alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.