Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Misty
/MIS · tee/
Meaning
“English nature name evoking morning mist and atmospheric”
English nature name evoking morning mist and atmospheric mystery; popularized in the US in the 1960s and 1970s, partly through the song 'Misty' by Erroll Garner.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Peaked in the 1970s in the US; firmly retro now, unlikely to revive soon.
The cultural moment.
Top 100 in the US from the late 1960s through the 1980s; rare in new births since the 1990s.