Mischa
Mischa reached its high-water mark in 2008 at number 1,762, and has been recorded 1,891 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,987th. About 1,800 Mischas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mischa boys named Mischa
Girls and boys called Mischa
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,693 girls and 198 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 26 to 0.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 29 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,891
- Estimated living today
- 1,800
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 1,762nd
- Rank in 2025
- 4,987th
- First recorded
- 1953
- Girls / boys
- 1,693 / 198
How old the living Mischas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,891 babies given the name since 1953, about 1,800 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 850 of them are children and 13 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 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 Mischas
- Mischa Barton (born 1986)British-American actress and model
- Mischa Maisky (born 1948)Latvian-Israeli cellist
- Mischa Zverev (born 1987)German tennis player
- Mischa Auer (1905–1967)Russian-born American actor
- Mischa Elman (1891–1967)American violinist
- Mischa Bredewold (born 2000)Dutch cyclist
- Mischa Levitzki (1898–1941)Russian-born American concert pianist
People named Mischa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mischa is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mischa is most concentrated in California (5.5×), Florida (2.5×), Texas (1.5×), New York (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2008
The most popular girls’ names the year Mischa peaked:
Mischa elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Mischa | 656 | 419th |
| Switzerland boys | Mischa | 622 | 164th |
| Ireland girls | Mischa | 75 | 286th |
| France boys | Mischa | 50 | 2,852nd |
| Scotland girls | Mischa | 40 | 317th |
| France girls | Mischa | 25 | 5,186th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Mischa | 13 | 332nd |
| England and Wales boys | Mischa | 11 | 4,270th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mischa: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Mischa | 613 | 0.049% | 114th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Mischa | 6 | 0.001% | 386th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Mischa | 3 | 0.005% | 179th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Mischa is most concentrated in Basel-Landschaft, where 0.08% of children were given it – 41 of them.
Mischa among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Mischa | 1,617 | 1,905 |
| the Netherlands girls | Mischa | 417 | 498 |
| Finland boys | Mischa | 15 | 23 |
| Finland girls | Mischa | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Mischa against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.