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Missie

Girls' name

Diminutive of Melissa

Missie has been given to 870 babies in the U.S. since 1883. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1968, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Missie, 2015

1 in 617,000

Missie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Missie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Melissa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Missie means

Missie is a diminutive of Melissa.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Missie is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmɪs.i/ for Missie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Missie is a diminutive of Melissa. Melissa has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Melissa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 870 girls were recorded with the name Missie between 1883 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1968; its best national rank was #738 in 1883.

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.

How common is Missie?

Missie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 617,000
6 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
427,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Missie 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 2015 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 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Missie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Missies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Missie was born before 1961 — so the typical Missie is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
504
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1960s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (213).

Is Missie 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1968 (38)
Years since peak
57
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#738
1883

Spellings of Missie

Missie is not the most common spelling — Bessie is, with 22.7% against Missie's 0.12%.

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 Missie is used

Across 1910–2025, Missie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,175,489 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2Missouri1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

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. Missie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Missie around the world

Where Missie 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
    2002–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    2012–2024
    #6,259
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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

Missie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#738
1883
Peak year
1968
38 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
870
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Missie

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

MishkaMischaMishelMisakiMishellMishalMishikaKensieDaisieKaysieMisaJersieMishelleHassieMiskMaysieRossieJossieMissouriMistieMishaelMishaMishtiEllsie

Sibling names for Missie

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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