Misk
#1,764 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Misk has been given to 577 babies in the U.S. since 2010. In 2025 it ranked #1,764 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 115 recorded.
Babies named Misk, 2025
1 in 28,800
Misk over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Misk?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 28,800
- 115 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 14,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,764
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 19,983 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Misk sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 19,983 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Misk. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Misks were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Misk was born before 2023 — so the typical Misk is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 74.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 577
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 74.9% of all recorded uses (432).
Is Misk 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
- +155
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,650
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +5,731
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 7.19×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (115)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.5% average annual change
Spellings of Misk
Misk is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 61.4% against Misk's 0.04%.
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 Misk is used
Across 2016–2025, Misk was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 30,767 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in 14,286
- 2New Jersey1 in 16,667
- 3Michigan1 in 25,000
- 4New York1 in 25,000
- 5Texas1 in 25,000
- 6Virginia1 in 25,000
- 7California1 in 50,000
- 8Massachusetts1 in 50,000
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.
Misk around the world
Where Misk 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 & Wales2006–2025#763in 2025
- Scotland2025–2025#632in 2025
- Ireland2024–2025#885in 2025
- France2020–2025#1,147in 2025
- Canada2017–2024#772in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Misk by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Misk
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Misk
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.