How popular is the baby name Sisqo in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Sisqo.

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Popularity of the baby name Sisqo


Posts that mention the name Sisqo

What popularized the baby name Mya in the late 1990s?

Mýa's self-titled debut album (1998)
Mýa album

Mononymous R&B singer Mýa (pronounced MIE-uh) became famous in the late 1990s, when her songs started popping up on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart:

  • “It’s All About Me” (with Sisqó) peaked at #6 in May of 1998
  • “Ghetto Supastar” (with Pras Michel and Ol’ Dirty Bastard) peaked at #15 in August of 1998
  • “Movin’ On” (with Silkk The Shocker) peaked at #34 in September of 1998
  • “Take Me There” (with Blackstreet, Mase, and Blinky Blink) peaked at #14 in January of 1999
  • “My First Night With You” peaked at #28 in April of 1999

Mýa sang the hook on “Ghetto Supastar,” which has been described as “the most deliriously irresistible song of the summer of ’98.” The single became a worldwide hit, and was nominated for a Grammy Award (for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group) in early 1999.

As a result of Mýa’s success, the baby name Mya — amid the ongoing rise of the like-sounding name Maya — saw a swift increase in usage during the last two years of the century. In fact, Mya’s rise seems to have accelerated Maya’s rise in 1998 specifically.

Girls named MyaGirls named Maya
20001,839 [rank: 175th]3,019 [rank: 113th]
19991,885 [rank: 166th]2854 [rank: 113th]
19981,284 [rank: 238th]2685 [rank: 123rd]
1997196 [rank: 995th]1675 [rank: 182nd]
19961511,445 [rank: 201st]

But the influence doesn’t end there. A number of names ending in “-mya” also saw higher usage during those years. (The same can be said for names ending in “-maya,” such as Amaya, Jamaya, and Tamaya.)

199719981999
Amya1042168
Jamya1376163
Shamya2260131
Tamya1474127
Kamya102157
Lamya82051
Ramya182438
Samya72232

Dozens of other “-mya” and “-myah” names (like Damya, Zamya, Camya, and Amyah) appeared for the very first time in the U.S. baby name data during the late 1990s.

Mýa was born Mya Marie Harrison in Washington, D.C., in 1979. Curiously, she was more interested in dancing than in singing as a child. She even studied under tap dancer Savion Glover for a time.

What are your thoughts on the name Mya? Do you like this spelling, or do you prefer Maya?

P.S. Intriguingly, the rise of Mia (pronounced MEE-uh) — which went on to become a top-10 girl name — slowed down in the late 1990s. Did Mya steal some of Mia’s thunder, I wonder…?

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Interesting one-hit wonder names in the U.S. baby name data

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They came, they went, and they never came back!

These baby names are one-hit wonders in the U.S. baby name data. That is, they’ve only popped up once, ever, in the entire dataset of U.S. baby names (which accounts for all names given to at least 5 U.S. babies per year since 1880).

There are thousands of one-hit wonders in the dataset, but the names below have interesting stories behind their single appearance, so these are the one-hits I’m writing specific posts about. Just click on a name to read more.

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As I discover (and write about) more one-hit wonders in the data, I’ll add the names/links to this page. In the meanwhile, do you have any favorite one-hit wonder baby names?

Image: Adapted from Solitary Poppy by Andy Beecroft under CC BY-SA 2.0.

[Latest update: Apr. 2024]

Where did the baby name Sisqo come from in 2000?

Sisqo's single "Thong Song" (2000)
Sisqo single

In February of 2000, R&B singer SisQó released his best-known hit, “Thong Song.” It peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May and helped SisQó earn four Grammy nominations (Best New Artist, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song, and Best R&B Album).

SisQó wasn’t a one-hit wonder on the music charts — another single, “Incomplete,” reached #1 in August — but the name Sisqo was a one-hit wonder in the U.S. baby name data:

  • 2002: unlisted
  • 2001: unlisted
  • 2000: 9 baby boys named Sisqo [debut]
  • 1999: unlisted
  • 1998: unlisted

Sisqo’s real name is Mark Althavean Andrews. His stage name was his (unwanted) childhood nickname:


[I]n his old neighborhood “if you had [wavy] hair like mine as a kid, you looked Puerto Rican. They used to tease me and call me that name, which sucked.” Since “SisQó” sounded Puerto Rican to the local kids, Mark was stuck with the nickname.

Here’s an amusing clip of SisQó watching the video for “Thong Song” 15 years later.

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