Entry № 6941 · English origin

Misty Misty — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MIS-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Light fog (Misty Copeland, first Black principal at ABT)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "light fog (misty copeland, first black principal at abt)".

Misty is from the Old English mist (fog, mist) + the diminutive -y; popularized by Erroll Garner's 1954 jazz standard Misty. Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People (2015).

Light fog (Misty Copeland, first Black principal at ABT) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Misty
Transliteration
Misty
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɪs.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Misty stands.

Misty does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Mistys before her.

Real people
Misty Copeland
First Black female ABT principal dancer.
born 1982
Misty May-Treanor
American Olympic beach volleyball.
born 1977
In fiction
Misty
Play Misty for Me.
1971

Names connected to Misty.

The number behind Misty.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Misty reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.