Feminine dossier · first seen 1944

Misty

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Misty
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99.4% from peak

Peak era

1977

Peak rank proxy

6,315

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Gen X

1944Peak 19772024

Peak year

1977

Decline from peak

99.4%

2024

All-time

84,619

Misty once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1977, when 6,315 girls were named Misty.

In 2024, only 36 girls were given the name.

Down 99.4% from its peak.

All told, about 84,619 Americans have been named Misty and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1944.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGen X

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.4% from peak

19776,315 girls named Misty

202436 girls named Misty

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