Mitsuye

Girls' name

From Japanese みつえ; literal meaning unconfirmed

Mitsuye has been given to 104 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1921, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Mitsuye, 1926

1 in 328,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mitsuye: meaning, origin, and history

From Japanese みつえ; literal meaning unconfirmed

Japanese

What Mitsuye means

Mitsuye is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Mitsuye is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

Mitsuye comes through Japanese みつえ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 104 girls were recorded with the name Mitsuye between 1916 and 1926. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1921; its best national rank was #2,350 in 1921.

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 Mitsuye?

Mitsuye had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1926, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1926: 1 in 328,000; 7 of 2,295,839 births
Among girls only: 1 in 169,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1926: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 227,337 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Mitsuye 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 1926 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 227,337 children born in 1926 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mitsuye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mitsuyes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mitsuye was born before 1921 — so the typical Mitsuye is around 104 today.

Median birth year: 1921; About 104 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 66.3% 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 — 66.3% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Mitsuye 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 1921 (16)
Years since peak: 104; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 37.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,350; 1921

Spellings of Mitsuye

Mitsuye is not the most common spelling — Mitsuko is, with 84.5% against Mitsuye's 15.5%.

Mitsuko84.5%565
Mitsuye15.5%104

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 Mitsuye is used

Across 1910–2025, Mitsuye was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 242,274 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 100,000
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. Mitsuye has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mitsuye 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: #2,350; 1921
Peak year: 1921; 16 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 1926
All-time count: 104
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Mitsuye

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

Mitsuki Mithila Mithra Mitali Mitsuyo Shizuye Mitchel Mitsuko Mitra Mitsue Kikuye Mitsy Mitzel Haruye Hatsuye Mitakshi Mitzy Mita Mitze Matsuye Mitsuru Mitchelle Mitchell Mital

Sibling names for Mitsuye

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

Elvera Rubie Tressie Lavinia Adell Idella Dortha Linnie

For a brother

Hardy Antone Harmon Arlie Burl Dewitt Patsy Odis

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