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Misha vs Missouri

American parents have registered 4,858 Mishas since 1880, against 1,602 Missouris. Misha is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Misha against Missouri, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Misha Missouri

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 140 years in which either name was published, Missouri for 74 years and Misha for 66 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Misha Missouri
Total US births 4,8581,602
Most in one year 14240
Babies in 2025 607
Estimated living today 4,700200
Median age today 2568
Peak year 19911889
Best rank 1,248th girls381st girls
Rank in 2025 3,211th11,932nd
First recorded 19541880
Girls / boys 4,255 / 6031,602 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Missouris alive today are over 68; half the Mishas are over 25. That is 43 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Misha and Missouri.