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Myiesha vs Myisha

American parents have registered 1,551 Myishas since 1880, against 657 Myieshas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Myiesha against Myisha, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Myiesha Myisha

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 45 years in which either name was published, Myisha for 36 years and Myiesha for 9 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Myiesha Myisha
Total US births 6571,551
Most in one year 6777
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 6401,500
Median age today 3239
Peak year 19951980
Best rank 2,028th girls1,528th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19731969
Girls / boys 657 / 01,551 / 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 Myishas alive today are over 39; half the Myieshas are over 32. That is 7 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: Myiesha and Myisha.