Misha
Misha is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 83 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 830.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1991135 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1954
- 4,798people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,206 girls have been named Misha in the United States since 1954, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 135 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 2010s alone account for 21%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 592 boys have also been given it, 12% of the total.
By decade
In 1991, its biggest year
Misha was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1991 were Ashley, Jessica, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Misha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ayeshapeak 2016
- Julypeak 2020
- Joriepeak 1991
- Koripeak 2016
- Jamilahpeak 1977
- Tovapeak 2023
- Lyndeepeak 2007
- Erinapeak 2022
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.