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Mischelle vs Misti

American parents have registered 8,324 Mistis since 1880, against 967 Mischelles. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mischelle against Misti, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mischelle Misti

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 61 years in which either name was published, Misti for 49 years and Mischelle for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Mischelle Misti
Total US births 9678,324
Most in one year 67521
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 8607,900
Median age today 5947
Peak year 19661975
Best rank 1,320th girls389th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19451952
Girls / boys 967 / 08,324 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mischelles alive today are over 59; half the Mistis are over 47. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mischelle and Misti.