Mitsue

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Mitsue has been given to 358 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1923, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Mitsue, 1936

1 in 231,000

Mitsue over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mitsue: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Japanese

What Mitsue means

Mitsue is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Mitsue is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 358 girls were recorded with the name Mitsue between 1914 and 1936. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1923; its best national rank was #1,321 in 1923.

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.

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How common is Mitsue?

Mitsue had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1936, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1936: 1 in 231,000; 9 of 2,077,561 births
Among girls only: 1 in 116,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1936: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 160,007 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Mitsue 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 1936 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 160,007 children born in 1936 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mitsue. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mitsues were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mitsue was born before 1923 — so the typical Mitsue is around 102 today.

Median birth year: 1923; About 102 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 62.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 62.3% of all recorded uses (223).

Is Mitsue 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1923 (36)
Years since peak: 102; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 33.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,321; 1923

Spellings of Mitsue

Mitsue is not the most common spelling — Mittie is, with 64.5% against Mitsue's 3.7%.

Mittie64.5%6,298
Mitzie17.1%1,671
Missie8.9%870
Mitsuko5.8%565
Mitsue3.7%358

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 Mitsue is used

Across 1910–2025, Mitsue was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,538 girls, against 1 in 53,316 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

065 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 1,538
2California1 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. Mitsue has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mitsue 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: —
Best rank ever: #1,321; 1923
Peak year: 1923; 36 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 1936
All-time count: 358
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Mitsue

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

Mithra Mitra Mitzy Mitali Mitsuko Mitsy Mitsuki Mithila Mitzie Hatsue Mitsuye Matsue Marysue Mitchelle Mitchell Josue Mitzel Marisue Mittie Mitsuyo Mitzi Mita Mitze Mitchel

Sibling names for Mitsue

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

For a sister

Filomena Novella Aletha Dorcas Vernice Albertha Bethel Rosina

For a brother

Elwin Rubin Bertram Alvis Eldridge Trinidad Hobert Harland

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