Vessie
Last seen for girls in 1952 at #5,563 · Last seen for boys in 1929 at #3,959
Given to girls 99.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1881 · 8 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 513since 1881
Vessie over time
Rank among girls' names. Vessie has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
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| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 | — | |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 | — | |
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| 1944 | #2,511 | 13 | — | |
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| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | — | |
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| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 | — | |
| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,731 | 10 | — | |
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 | — | |
| 1933 | #3,406 | 7 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 | — | |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 | — | |
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| 1929 | #2,301 | 14 | #3,959 | 5 |
| 1928 | #3,164 | 9 | — | |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,569 | 13 | — | |
| 1925 | #2,378 | 15 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,973 | 11 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,641 | 8 | — | |
| 1922 | #2,387 | 15 | — | |
| 1921 | #2,762 | 12 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,079 | 18 | — | |
| 1919 | #1,989 | 18 | — | |
| 1918 | #1,754 | 22 | — | |
| 1917 | #1,605 | 23 | — | |
| 1916 | #1,805 | 19 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,050 | 15 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,638 | 8 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,164 | 9 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,360 | 7 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,300 | 13 | — | |
| 1910 | #2,140 | 6 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,607 | 8 | — | |
| 1908 | #2,101 | 5 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,206 | 11 | — | |
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| 1905 | #1,238 | 10 | — | |
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| 1903 | #1,318 | 8 | — | |
| 1902 | #1,793 | 5 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,067 | 10 | — | |
| 1900 | #1,723 | 6 | — | |
| 1899 | #1,394 | 6 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,379 | 7 | — | |
| 1897 | #1,385 | 6 | — | |
| 1896 | #872 | 14 | — | |
| 1895 | #893 | 13 | — | |
| 1894 | #1,061 | 9 | — | |
| 1893 | #1,023 | 9 | — | |
| 1892 | #958 | 10 | — | |
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| 1887 | #1,147 | 5 | — | |
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| 1881 | #623 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Vessie! It came in at #623, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1891, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Vessie is popular in 1917
No state had 5 or more girls named Vessie in 1917, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Vessie
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1952
- Biggest jump: 168 spots in 1895 (#1,061 → #893)
- Biggest drop: 513 spots in 1897 (#872 → #1,385)
- Debuted 1881
- Peaked 1881 at #623 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1882, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1895–1896
- Highest: 1 in 11,494 girls born in 1881 were named Vessie (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 370,867 girls born in 1952 (0.00%)
- 27.3% of all girls named Vessie (140) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 13 | #623 (1881) | #885 |
| 1890s | 74 | #872 (1896) | #1,121 |
| 1900s | 63 | #1,067 (1901) | #1,507 |
| 1910s | 140 | #1,300 (1911) | #1,981 |
| 1920s | 121 | #2,079 (1920) | #2,854 |
| 1930s | 56 | #2,731 (1935) | #3,817 |
| 1940s | 34 | #2,511 (1944) | #4,280 |
| 1950s | 12 | #4,315 (1950) | #4,939 |
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.
Vessie in 1917
Top girls' names in 1917
More about 1917
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1,081,267 girls got a published name in 1917; 1 in 47,012 of them was named Vessie, which outranked 69.8% of the 5,310 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,552Tula24
- #1,552Yoshie24
- #1,552Zina24
- #1,605Vessie23
- #1,605Adel23
- #1,605Annamarie23
- #1,605Armanda23
- #1,652Adda22
- #1,652Alfred22
- #1,652Alvin22
Tied with 46 names at #1,605; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.