Besse
Last seen for girls in 1926 at #3,564
- Peak · girls
- 1889 · 39 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 671since 1880
Besse over time
Rank among girls' names. Besse has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 |
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 |
| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 |
| 1923 | #2,917 | 11 |
| 1922 | #2,479 | 14 |
| 1921 | #2,509 | 14 |
| 1920 | #3,957 | 7 |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 |
| 1918 | #2,376 | 14 |
| 1917 | #2,204 | 15 |
| 1916 | #2,368 | 13 |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 |
| 1913 | #1,465 | 16 |
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| 1909 | #1,290 | 11 |
| 1908 | #1,439 | 9 |
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| 1906 | #1,101 | 12 |
| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 |
| 1904 | #1,659 | 6 |
| 1903 | #969 | 13 |
| 1902 | #797 | 19 |
| 1901 | #1,339 | 7 |
| 1900 | #833 | 20 |
| 1899 | #878 | 14 |
| 1898 | #963 | 13 |
| 1897 | #715 | 19 |
| 1896 | #950 | 12 |
| 1895 | #530 | 31 |
| 1894 | #782 | 15 |
| 1893 | #571 | 24 |
| 1892 | #590 | 22 |
| 1891 | #524 | 24 |
| 1890 | #412 | 37 |
| 1889 | #388 | 39 |
| 1888 | #420 | 35 |
| 1887 | #446 | 25 |
| 1886 | #491 | 20 |
| 1885 | #438 | 23 |
| 1884 | #391 | 26 |
| 1883 | #480 | 16 |
| 1882 | #530 | 12 |
| 1881 | #623 | 8 |
| 1880 | #547 | 10 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Besse was already there! It came in at #547, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1907, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Besse is popular in 1888
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Besse
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1926
- Biggest jump: 542 spots in 1902 (#1,339 → #797)
- Biggest drop: 690 spots in 1904 (#969 → #1,659)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1889 at #388 (39 births)
- Births halved by 1894, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 1880–1900
- Highest: 1 in 4,573 girls born in 1889 were named Besse (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 148,175 girls born in 1926 (0.00%)
- 31.9% of all girls named Besse (214) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 214 | #388 (1889) | #475 |
| 1890s | 211 | #412 (1890) | #692 |
| 1900s | 102 | #797 (1902) | #1,262 |
| 1910s | 78 | #1,465 (1913) | #2,759 |
| 1920s | 66 | #2,479 (1922) | #3,486 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Besse in 1888
Top girls' names in 1888
More about 1888
girls
178,622 girls got a published name in 1888; 1 in 5,103 of them was named Besse, which outranked 71.5% of the 1,474 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #413Hortense36
- #413Jimmie36
- #413Winnifred36
- #420Besse35
- #420Bennie35
- #420Ethyl35
- #420Golda35
- #425Clyde34
- #425Eloise34
- #425Erna34
Tied with 4 names at #420; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 643Anabel#633 → #1,276
- ↓ 583Tennessee#693 → #1,276
- ↓ 576Diana#560 → #1,136
- ↓ 576Hope#560 → #1,136
- ↓ 550Margaretha#586 → #1,136
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.