girls:
1.1k births since 1880
#4598 (20th percentile)
boys:
16 births since 1915
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1880
#6605 (15th percentile)
The name Hessie is the #6,605 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,134 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 14.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,598 (19.5% percentile) for all time with 1,118 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1915.
Hessie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1915 for boys). Birth data for Hessie is available in 75 out of the 80 years between 1880 and 1959 (75 years for girls and 3 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 Hessie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Hessie reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 6.4% percentile (ranked #569) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 79 births per million (ranked 4.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1959.
For boys, Hessie reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #502) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1920.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hessie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Hessie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Hessie is pronounced as HEH-see, which has 2 syllables.
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