girls:
11.4k births since 1880
#1475 (74th percentile)
boys:
317 births since 1891
#4269 (7th percentile)
overall:
11.7k births since 1880
#2436 (69th percentile)
The name Dessie is the #2,436 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,716 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 68.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,475 (74.2% percentile) for all time with 11,399 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,269 (6.9% percentile) for all time with 317 births since 1891.
Dessie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1891 for boys). Birth data for Dessie is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for girls and 43 years for boys). 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.
The name Dessie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Dessie reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 42.4% percentile (ranked #340) with 256 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 507 births per million (ranked 24.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dessie ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 1.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Dessie reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #526) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 55 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dessie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dessie is pronounced as DEH-see, which has 2 syllables.
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