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Misha vs Mishell

American parents have registered 4,858 Mishas since 1880, against 516 Mishells. Misha is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Misha against Mishell, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Misha Mishell

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 69 years in which either name was published, Misha for 66 years and Mishell for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Misha Mishell
Total US births 4,858516
Most in one year 14217
Babies in 2025 605
Estimated living today 4,700500
Median age today 2527
Peak year 19912002
Best rank 1,248th girls6,392nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,211th14,942nd
First recorded 19541957
Girls / boys 4,255 / 603516 / 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 Mishells alive today are over 27; half the Mishas are over 25. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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