Mystique — girls' name

What the Data Says About Mystique

The Social Security Administration has registered 456 babies named Mystique between 1973 and 2021, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mystique currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 31 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mystique performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 168 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Mystique shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Mystique in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mystique in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 456 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.