Dessie

Where Dessie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Dessie.

  • Vowel-ended
Dessie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #254 among girls, with 36 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #233
    72 babies named Dessie, its best rank.
  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

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.