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Mishka

Mishka reached its high-water mark in 2019 at number 2,272, and has been recorded 779 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,712th. About 770 Mishkas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Mishka

By the numbers

Total US births
779
Estimated living today
770
Median age today
7
Peak year
2019
Best rank
2,272nd
Rank in 2025
3,712th
First recorded
1993

How old the living Mishkas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 779 babies given the name since 1993, about 770 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 720 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 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.

Where Mishka is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Mishka is most concentrated in New Jersey (5.8×), Washington (5.2×), California (4.1×), Texas (2.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2019

The most popular girls’ names the year Mishka peaked:

All the names of 2019

Mishka elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Mishka 175 1,773rd
France boys Mishka 5 6,651st
France girls Mishka 5 7,439th

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.

Mishka 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
Finland boys Mishka 12 14

A count of people on a register – 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.

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Mishka against another name

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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.