Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Misaki through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 265
- 0 boys · 265 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,500 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −43%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,500 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 385 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Misaki’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Misaki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 光咲姫. In Japanese usage, Misaki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 実咲. In Japanese usage, Misaki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 海咲.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 9
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 魅咲original script · Japanese
- 美沙紀original script · Japanese
- 海咲original script · Japanese
- 実咲original script · Japanese
- 光咲姫original script · Japanese
- 海沙希original script · Japanese
- 美咲original script · Japanese
- みさきoriginal script
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People named Misaki
- Misaki DoiJapanese tennis playerborn 1991
- Misaki MatsutomoJapanese badminton playerborn 1992
- Misaki UemuraJapanese association football playerborn 1991
- Misaki ItoJapanese actor-modelborn 1977
- Misaki EmuraJapanese fencer and actressborn 1998
- Misaki KunoJapanese voice actressborn 1993
- Misaki HaruyamaJapanese association football playerborn 2001
- Misaki OshigiriJapanese speed skaterborn 1992
- Misaki IwasaJapanese idol and member of the idol group AKB48born 1995
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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