How rare is the name Missy?

6,541 people in the United States have the first name Missy, about 1 in 46,175. It ranks #3,261 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MISSY

#3,261

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,541
About
1 in 46,175
This common or more
82%
Who bears it

Of the 6,541 people named Missy, 78.7% reported their origin as White, 8.3% as Black and 6.2% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Missy peaked in 1967, when 303 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19432025
Peak year
1967
Births that year
303
In 2025*
21 ▼93%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,776 babies have been given the name since 1943. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Missy by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,147. The largest share of babies named Missy, 50.2%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#6,70954
1950s#2,208586
1960s#1,1472,362
1970s#1,5971,406
1980s#2,586760
1990s#6,955247
2000s#12,689145
2010s#15,368115
2020s#11,577101
Silent Generation 1928–450.2%
Baby boom 1946–6428.9%
Generation X 1965–8050.2%
Millennials 1981–9613.5%
Generation Z 1997–124.2%
2013 and later3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Missy is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Missy has been most common in Kentucky (2.8×), Tennessee (2.7×), and Ohio (2.4×), and least common in New York (0.33×).

3,386 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Missy

#3,259 Bilal · 6,544#3,260 Elian · 6,543#3,262 Gisele · 6,538#3,263 Gabriele · 6,535

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Missy, most common first.

#3,787 Miss · 5,235#33,663 Missi · 245#48,685 Missey · 130

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