Pessy
- #3,167 for girls in 2025, 50 births
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 62 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,207since 1971
Pessy over time
Rank among girls' names. Pessy has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,167 | 50 |
| 2024 | #2,976 | 55 |
| 2023 | #2,975 | 56 |
| 2022 | #3,595 | 43 |
| 2021 | #2,715 | 63 |
| 2020 | #2,682 | 62 |
| 2019 | #3,665 | 41 |
| 2018 | #3,004 | 54 |
| 2017 | #3,697 | 41 |
| 2016 | #4,250 | 34 |
| 2015 | #3,429 | 46 |
| 2014 | #3,652 | 42 |
| 2013 | #3,513 | 44 |
| 2012 | #3,583 | 44 |
| 2011 | #3,603 | 43 |
| 2010 | #3,745 | 41 |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 |
| 2008 | #4,089 | 38 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 |
| 2006 | #4,576 | 31 |
| 2005 | #6,245 | 19 |
| 2004 | #5,062 | 25 |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 |
| 2002 | #5,086 | 23 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
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| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 |
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| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
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| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
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| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
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| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Pessy! It came in at #8,324, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Pessy is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#388 · 1 in 1,780
Best ever in a state: #333 in New York, 2023.
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| New York | #388 | 44 | 1 in 1,780 |
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See more about Pessy
- 191 spots since 2024 (#2,976 → #3,167)
- 485 spots since 2020 (#2,682 → #3,167)
- 262 spots since 2015 (#3,429 → #3,167)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2020 at #2,682 (62 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 26,045 girls born in 2021 were named Pessy (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,145 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,682 in 2020, was only 1 in 26,073 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.6% of all girls named Pessy (430) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 24 | #7,173 (1975) | #8,238 |
| 1980s | 53 | #6,788 (1987) | #7,530 |
| 1990s | 101 | #5,835 (1990) | #7,927 |
| 2000s | 270 | #4,089 (2008) | #4,962 |
| 2010s | 430 | #3,004 (2018) | #3,614 |
| 2020s | 329 | #2,682 (2020) | #3,018 |
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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