Given name

Mitsuye

Mitsuye is a feminine given name from Japanese.

Original Japaneseみつえ

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Mitsuye comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In English usage, Mitsuye developed from みつえ.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Mitsuye through the years

Babies since 1880
104
0 boys · 104 girls
Most popular year
1921
16 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Mitsuye in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1916–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1926. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 16 in 1921.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Mitsuye’s family of names

In English usage, Mitsuye developed from the Japanese form みつえ.

Walk Mitsuye’s family in the name graph

Mitsuyeみつえ

The ring: across languages.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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