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Girl · English
Misty
Say it: MISS-tee
Meaning
From the English word misty.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A 20th-century American name, helped by the 1954 jazz standard Misty and the 1971 film Play Misty for Me, peaking in the 1970s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1970s
In the United States
- 84,738 babies given this name since 1944
- At its height in 1977, about 1 in 243 girls
- 37 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Misti, Mistie
Famous bearers
- Misty Copeland, American ballet dancer
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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