girls:
671 births since 1880
#5045 (12th percentile)
overall:
671 births since 1880
#7068 (9th percentile)
The name Besse is the #7,068 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 671 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 8.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,045 (11.7% percentile) for all time with 671 births since 1880.
Besse has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Besse is available in 43 out of the 47 years between 1880 and 1926. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Besse reached its peak popularity in 1889, achieving the 12.0% percentile (ranked #251) with 206 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 206 births per million (ranked 12.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1926.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Besse".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Besse. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.0% confident that Besse is pronounced as behs, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEH-see, at 34.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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