Girl
Misty
As a girl's name, Misty is understood to mean "Suggests mystery or softness". It had its heyday in the 1970s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. The name's best year yet was 1977.
EnglishEnglish word name, from "mist"
EtymologySuggests mystery or softness
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
40
1950s
276
1960s
5,294
1970s
42,513
1980s
29,216
1990s
5,418
2000s
1,425
2010s
447
Peaked in the 1970s · 84,629 total U.S. births since 1900