How rare is the name Misti?

6,928 people in the United States have the first name Misti, about 1 in 43,596. It ranks #3,148 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MISTI

#3,148

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,928
About
1 in 43,596
This common or more
81.8%
Who bears it

Of the 6,928 people named Misti, 87.5% reported their origin as White, 4.6% as two or more races and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Misti peaked in 1975, when 521 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19522016
Peak year
1975
Births that year
521
In 2016
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 8,324 babies have been given the name since 1952. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Misti by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #849. The largest share of babies named Misti, 63.2%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1950s#9,21734
1960s#1,889914
1970s#8494,204
1980s#1,2642,471
1990s#3,890576
2000s#15,155112
2010s#37,94513
Baby boom 1946–644%
Generation X 1965–8063.2%
Millennials 1981–9630.4%
Generation Z 1997–122.3%
2013 and later0.1%

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

Where Misti is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Misti has been most common in Wyoming (4.5×), Oklahoma (4.5×), and Texas (3.2×), and least common in South Carolina (0.35×).

6,439 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 Misti

#3,146 Ferdinand · 6,930#3,146 Yousef · 6,930#3,149 Amado · 6,919#3,150 Rivka · 6,916

Spelled almost the same

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

#726 Misty · 70,424#8,082 Mistie · 1,820

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