Dessie
Dessie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 233rd, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918308 births
- Best rank
- #233in 1885
- Since 1880
- 11,723people given the name
The story in the numbers
11,406 girls have been named Dessie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 308 births.
The name has all but left use: 7 births in 2024, against 308 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 69 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 317 boys have also been given it, 2.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dessie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 540 | |
| 1890s | 1,039 | |
| 1900s | 1,276 | |
| 1910s | 2,327 | |
| 1920s | 2,378 | |
| 1930s | 1,369 | |
| 1940s | 865 | |
| 1950s | 589 | |
| 1960s | 344 | |
| 1970s | 200 | |
| 1980s | 167 | |
| 1990s | 109 | |
| 2000s | 92 | |
| 2010s | 77 | |
| 2020s | 34 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Dessie was the 371st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Dessie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alphapeak 1916
- Hesterpeak 1918
- Altapeak 1918
- Olapeak 1921
- Maepeak 1918
- Lelapeak 1921
- Florencepeak 1918
- Lenniepeak 1915
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.