Dessa
Dessa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 15 births. Its best rank was 500th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 150.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 200131 births
- Best rank
- #500in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,801people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,801 girls have been named Dessa in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 31 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 2000s alone account for 10%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dessa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 99 | |
| 1890s | 98 | |
| 1900s | 79 | |
| 1910s | 152 | |
| 1920s | 156 | |
| 1930s | 111 | |
| 1940s | 94 | |
| 1950s | 125 | |
| 1960s | 119 | |
| 1970s | 118 | |
| 1980s | 132 | |
| 1990s | 101 | |
| 2000s | 183 | |
| 2010s | 175 | |
| 2020s | 59 |
In 2001, its biggest year
Dessa was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2001 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Ashley and Alexis. See all of 2001.
Names that rose and fell with Dessa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Phebepeak 2011
- Molliepeak 1915
- Tildapeak 1924
- Maggiepeak 2007
- Sophroniapeak 1900
- Libbiepeak 1915
- Deliapeak 1957
- Louisapeak 2021
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.