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Mishka

#3,749 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Mikhail

Mishka has been given to 779 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #3,749 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 80 recorded.

Babies named Mishka, 2025

1 in 82,900

Mishka over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mishka: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Mikhail

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mishka means

Mishka is a diminutive of Mikhail.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mishka → Mikhail → Михаи́л. The family’s meaning is “teddy bear”, recorded in Russian with the source elements Михаи́л.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mikhail.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 779 girls were recorded with the name Mishka between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 80 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,282 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,411 in 2020 to #3,749 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,689 in 2015 to #3,749 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mishka?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 40,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,749
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mishka sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mishka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mishkas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mishka was born before 2018 — so the typical Mishka is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
779
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.8% of all recorded uses (427).

Is Mishka rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,808
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,338
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−60
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2019 (80)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,282
2019

Spellings of Mishka

Mishka is not the most common spelling — Aisha is, with 30.4% against Mishka's 0.88%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mishka is used

Across 2016–2025, Mishka was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 22,769 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 8,333
  2. 2Washington1 in 11,111
  3. 3California1 in 16,667
  4. 4Texas1 in 25,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 33,333
  6. 6Michigan1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Mishka around the world

Where Mishka ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    2024–2024
    #7,439
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2015–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1968–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mishka by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,749
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,338
Best rank ever
#2,282
2019
Peak year
2019
80 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
779
Count in 2025
40

Names similar to Mishka

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Mishka

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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