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Missie

The girl's name Missie has been in the national records since 1883, with 870 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2015. About 470 Missies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Missie

By the numbers

Total US births
870
Estimated living today
470
Median age today
56
Peak year
1968
Best rank
1,940th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1883

How old the living Missies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 870 babies given the name since 1883, about 470 are alive — 54 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 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 Missie is most common

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

Names of 1968

The most popular girls’ names the year Missie peaked:

All the names of 1968

Missie elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Missie 72 2,326th
France girls Missie 10 6,259th

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.

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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.