Missouri
Missouri is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 339th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 188940 births
- Best rank
- #339in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,595people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,595 girls have been named Missouri in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1889, with 40 births.
The name has all but left use: 9 births in 2024, against 40 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1913, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Missouri | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 264 | |
| 1890s | 230 | |
| 1900s | 235 | |
| 1910s | 269 | |
| 1920s | 278 | |
| 1930s | 121 | |
| 1940s | 58 | |
| 1950s | 52 | |
| 1960s | 6 | |
| 2000s | 17 | |
| 2010s | 36 | |
| 2020s | 29 |
In 1889, its biggest year
Missouri was the 383rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1889 were Mary, Anna, Elizabeth, Margaret and Emma. See all of 1889.
Names that rose and fell with Missouri
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maymepeak 1915
- Maypeak 1919
- Lizziepeak 1919
- Minniepeak 1916
- Mabellepeak 1893
- Effiepeak 1919
- Myrtiepeak 1917
- Lidapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.