Misa is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Misa in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Misa in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Misa by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Misa ranks at #5,959. That means there are 5,958 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Misa.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Misa. Girls named Misa have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 3,959 Misa ranked higher than ever in 1969. By comparison, there have been 90 years in which the first name Misa has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1986. In general, parents name their daughters Misa only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Misa was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Misa continues to be a precious jewel: 16 newborns were named Misa that year, ranking #6,090 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Misa, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Misa is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 112 Americans in total bear this name. And these 112 women are located in only three states: California, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Misa and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Misa in relation to it’s female population is California. And yet even there, only one in 162,097 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Misa.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With four letters, the name Misa is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Misa and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Misa, you can simply say:
Mouse
Igloo
Sun
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Misa
Misa
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
I
S
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
I
S
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Misa sounds like this:
