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Misti

Girls' name

Variant of Misty

Misti has been given to 8,324 babies in the U.S. since 1952. 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 1975, with 521 recorded.

Babies named Misti, 2016

1 in 734,000

Misti over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Misti: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Misty

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Misti means

Misti is a variant of Misty.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Misti is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmɪs.ti/ for Misti.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Misti → Misty → Melissa. The family’s meaning is “bee, honey, or honeybee”, recorded in English with the source elements mélissa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Misty.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,324 girls were recorded with the name Misti between 1952 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 521 in 1975; its best national rank was #390 in 1975.

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 Misti?

Misti had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Misti 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Misti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mistis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Misti was born before 1977 — so the typical Misti is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
50.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
8,324
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 50.5% of all recorded uses (4,204).

Is Misti 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 1975 (521)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#390
1975

Spellings of Misti

Misti is not the most common spelling — Misty is, with 35.8% against Misti's 3.5%.

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 Misti is used

Across 1910–2025, Misti was most concentrated in Wyoming — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 22,346 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

020 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wyoming1 in 5,000
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 5,556
  3. 3Texas1 in 7,692
  4. 4Utah1 in 9,091
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 10,000
  6. 6Idaho1 in 10,000
  7. 7Kansas1 in 11,111
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 12,500

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

Misti around the world

Where Misti 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
    1998–1998
    #3,848
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Misti 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
#390
1975
Peak year
1975
521 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
8,324
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Misti

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

MissyMishaMistyMischaDustiCristiMishkaMisaMistieMiskMissouriMishelMiskiMisakiMishelleKristiMissieMishellMishalMishikaMisaoHonestiMissiChristi

Names with a curve like Misti

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Misti, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ShandaKishaCristyTishaKeshaAmiChandaShondaShanonLashondaLashawnLakesha

Sibling names for Misti

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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