# Mish (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/mish/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 758 |
| US rank (2010) | 30,735 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 407,316 people |
| Change since 2000 | -13.1% (872 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* Shortened from Michael (Male). * Shortened from Michel (Male). * Shortened from Michelle (Female). These names originally a variant of Hebrew: מי כאל (Michael). In Hebrew pronounce as (Miha'el), and short version is מי כ (Miha). But in other countries, due to dialect, the short version began to be pronounced as (Misha), and so a shorter version appeared as (Mish).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Mish in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 91% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.3% |

## Similar surnames

Mash, Mishoe, Meis, Misch, Mais, Mis, McCoy, Mejia, Moss, McGee, Mack, Massey.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.