Bessy

Where Bessy comes from

From Bess + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Bessy
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #3,618 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1923
    Peak, #3,125
    10 babies named Bessy — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1924
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #5,061.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth; today more often spelled Bessie.
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.