Bessy
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 1923 · 10 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 334since 1914
Bessy over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Bessy has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 |
| 1986 | — | |
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| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
| 1978 | — | |
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| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
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| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
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| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 |
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| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 |
| 1923 | #3,125 | 10 |
| 1922 | — | |
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| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 |
| 1916 | — | |
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| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 |
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First appearance
1914
The first year at least five girls were named Bessy! It came in at #3,618, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1922, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Bessy is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Bessy in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 1,465 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #14,942)
- 5,396 spots since 2020 (#9,546 → #14,942)
- 4,076 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #14,942)
Rise & fade · girls
9 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1923 at #3,125 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1924, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 120,637
- Highest: 1 in 120,637 girls born in 1923 were named Bessy (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 27.8% of all girls named Bessy (93) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 15 | #3,618 (1914) | #4,340 |
| 1920s | 21 | #3,125 (1923) | #4,157 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 5 | #4,349 (1940) | #4,349 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 17 | #7,435 (1973) | #8,543 |
| 1980s | 36 | #6,788 (1987) | #8,990 |
| 1990s | 52 | #7,604 (1994) | #11,551 |
| 2000s | 93 | #7,724 (2001) | #10,983 |
| 2010s | 58 | #10,689 (2017) | #12,997 |
| 2020s | 37 | #9,546 (2020) | #12,100 |
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.
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