Misha is a first name for girls, occasionally also given to boys.
Misha is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,906 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,905 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Misha.
In fact, the name Misha wasn't vogue in the 19th century, but between 1900 and 1975 young parents changed that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Misha seemed more popular than ever in 1972, when 91 parents named their daughters Misha. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,111, that year parents chose it as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Misha, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Misha was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Misha a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 1,458, for a total of 131 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for a many years. As Misha seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Misha are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Misha in 21 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Misha live in California – here, one in 23,559 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 96,418 will turn around if you call her first name Misha.
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 five letters, the name Misha is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 Misha 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 Misha, you can simply say:
Mouse
Igloo
Sun
Hat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Misha
Misha
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
I
S
H
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
H
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. Misha sounds like this:
