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Missouri

The girl's name Missouri has been in the national records since 1880, with 1,602 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 11,932nd. About 200 Missouris are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Missouri

By the numbers

Total US births
1,602
Estimated living today
200
Median age today
68
Peak year
1889
Best rank
381st
Rank in 2025
11,932nd
First recorded
1880

How old the living Missouris 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 1,602 babies given the name since 1880, about 200 are alive — 13 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 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 Missouri is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Missouri is most concentrated in Alabama (20.0×), Mississippi (13.3×), Georgia (9.9×).

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

Names of 1889

The most popular girls’ names the year Missouri peaked:

All the names of 1889

Related names

Missouri against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.