Midge
Midge reached its high-water mark in 1953 at number 1,783, and has been recorded 805 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1974. About 510 Midges are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 70.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Midge
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 805
- Estimated living today
- 510
- Median age today
- 70
- Peak year
- 1953
- Best rank
- 1,783rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1916
How old the living Midges are
born that year still alive today
Of the 805 babies given the name since 1916, about 510 are alive — 64 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1955 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Midges
- Midge Ure (born 1953)British guitarist, singer, keyboard player, and songwriter
People named Midge with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Midge is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Midge is most concentrated in California (5.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1953
The most popular girls’ names the year Midge peaked:
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Midge against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.