Dessie

Where Dessie comes from

Dessie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #254 among girls — 36 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #233
    72 babies named Dessie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1928
    Dessie Glynn born
    Irish soccer player
  4. 1953
    Dessie Grew born
    Irish Republican
  5. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,071.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Dessie Grew · Irish Republican, 1953–1990
  • Dessie Glynn · Irish soccer player, 1928–2017
  • Dessie Baker · Irish footballer, born 1977
  • Dessie Gorman · Irish footballer, born 1964

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.