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Mittie vs Mitzie

American parents have registered 6,298 Mitties since 1880, against 1,671 Mitzies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mittie Mitzie

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 111 years in which either name was published, Mittie for 76 years and Mitzie for 35 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Mittie Mitzie
Total US births 6,2981,671
Most in one year 15364
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 9301,200
Median age today 7663
Peak year 19201962
Best rank 580th girls1,383rd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801910
Girls / boys 6,298 / 01,671 / 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 Mitties alive today are over 76; half the Mitzies are over 63. That is 13 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: Mittie and Mitzie.