Besse

Where Besse comes from

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  • Vowel-ended
Besse through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #547 among girls, with 10 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1889
    Peak, #388
    39 babies named Besse, the most in any year.
  3. 1894
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #782.
In the dictionary

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Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.