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Missie

Gender
Girl
Say it
MIS-ee
Origin
English
UK rank, 2025
#4,935 for girls

Missie is a girls' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).

What does Missie mean?

English: spelling of Missy; pet form of Melissa, or from the word miss

Pet form of Melissa, Greek for 'honeybee', and also an English nickname for a young girl.

Meaning borrowed from Missy. More on Wiktionary.

Is Missie a girl's or a boy's name?

Missie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Missie in the UK?

Rank in 2025
4,935th among girls
Babies in 2025
4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Missie, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 10 girls.

Half of all the girls named Missie in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 14 girls in the UK were given Missie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,781, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.

2002Busiest: 10 in 20092025
Missie in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20254#4,935
20243#5,966
20230–
20223#5,885
20217#3,338
20203#5,734
20190–
20180–
20170–
20160–
20154#4,951
20140–
20130–
20124#5,058
20111#7,717
201010#2,540
200910#2,478
20087#3,203
20073#5,415
20065#3,724
20050–
20043#4,789
20034#3,768
20023#4,284

Names like Missie

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Missie

Names related to Missie

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Missie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/missie, updated 20 October 2026.