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Mitzi

#5,348 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Mitzi has been given to 13,200 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #5,348 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 469 recorded.

Babies named Mitzi, 2025

1 in 138,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mitzi: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

German

What Mitzi means

Mitzi belongs to the name family reached through Mitzi → Mitzi → Maria → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from German Mitzi in the 20th century.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Mitzi (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Mitzi is used in English and German. Its origins include German.

Mitzi comes through German Mitzi.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria, Mitzi and מרים.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,200 girls were recorded with the name Mitzi between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 469 in 1961; its best national rank was #429 in 1955.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,538 in 2020 to #5,348 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,409 in 2015 to #5,348 in 2025.

How common is Mitzi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,348
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mitzi 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 2025 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mitzi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mitzis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mitzi was born before 1963 — so the typical Mitzi is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
11,238
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (3,900).

Is Mitzi 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
+2,934
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,190
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+61
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.96×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.1%
Peak was 1961 (469)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#429
1955

Spellings of Mitzi

Mitzi is the most-used spelling, taking 21.9% of the 60,196 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Mitzi is used

Across 1910–2025, Mitzi was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 15,319 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

024 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Tennessee1 in 4,167
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 7,143
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 7,143
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 7,143
  5. 5Alabama1 in 7,692
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 7,692
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 10,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 10,000

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

Mitzi around the world

Where Mitzi 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
    2000–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1955–1955
    #1,583
    in 1955
  • South Australia
    1963–1977
    #637
    in 1977

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.

Notable people named Mitzi

People whose public names include Mitzi, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mitzi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,348
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,190
Best rank ever
#429
1955
Peak year
1961
469 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,200
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Mitzi

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

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Names with a curve like Mitzi

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

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Sibling names for Mitzi

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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