Given name & surname
Mister
Mister is a given name from Old French, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Mister comes from Old French, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old French maistre, from Latin magister, from Proto-Italic *magisteros, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mister through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 746
- 746 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 15
- #6,052 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −34%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 15 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,052 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 34.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 27 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,988 as a first name in 2020; 1,545 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mister’s family of names
In Greek usage, Mister as a surname is a transliteration of Μίστερ.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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