Missouri
#12,760 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Missouri has been given to 1,602 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #12,760 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1889, with 40 recorded.
Babies named Missouri, 2025
1 in 474,000
Missouri 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Missouri?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,760
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Missouri 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Missouri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Missouris were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Missouri was born before 1913 — so the typical Missouri is around 112 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 17.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 5.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 147
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 17.4% of all recorded uses (278).
Is Missouri 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
- −1,937
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 17.5%
- Peak was 1889 (40)
- Years since peak
- 136
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.3% average annual change
Where Missouri is used
Across 1910–2025, Missouri was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 138,897 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 50,000
- 2Georgia1 in 100,000
- 3Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 4North Carolina1 in —
- 5Virginia1 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. Missouri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Missouri by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Missouri
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Missouri
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.