Mister
Mister reached its high-water mark in 2015 at number 3,882, and has been recorded 746 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5,861st. About 720 Misters are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Mister
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 746
- Estimated living today
- 720
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2015
- Best rank
- 3,882nd
- Rank in 2025
- 5,861st
- First recorded
- 1971
How old the living Misters are
born that year still alive today
Of the 746 babies given the name since 1971, about 720 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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 Mister is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mister is most concentrated in California (8.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2015
The most popular boys’ names the year Mister peaked:
Related names
Mister 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.