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Mischa

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Mischa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 21 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
210.00% of girls
Peak year
2008125 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1953
1,865people given the name
Babies named Mischa, by year of birthgirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

1,667 girls have been named Mischa in the United States since 1953, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 125 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2000s alone account for 33%.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 198 boys have also been given it, 11% of the total.

By decade

Decadegirls named Mischa
1950s16
1960s87
1970s217
1980s128
1990s76
2000s545
2010s471
2020s127

In 2008, its biggest year

Mischa was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2008 were Emma, Isabella, Emily, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2008.

Names that rose and fell with Mischa

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.