Missy
Missy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 19 births. Its best rank was 541st, in 1967.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 190.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1967303 births
- Best rank
- #541in 1967
- Since 1943
- 5,755people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,755 girls have been named Missy in the United States since 1943, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1967, with 303 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1969, and the 1960s alone account for 41%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1967, its biggest year
Missy was the 541st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1967 were Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle, Mary and Susan. See all of 1967.
Names that rose and fell with Missy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kimberleypeak 1967
- Machellepeak 1968
- Shellipeak 1968
- Shellypeak 1964
- Tinapeak 1968
- Lisapeak 1965
- Shawnepeak 1969
- Heidepeak 1968
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.