girls:
1.2k births since 1935
#4477 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1935
#6496 (16th percentile)
The name Nessa is the #6,496 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,245 recorded births since 1935. This represents the 16.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,477 (21.7% percentile) for all time with 1,245 births since 1935.
Nessa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1935 (first recorded for girls in 1935). Birth data for Nessa is available in 58 out of the 89 years between 1935 and 2023. 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, Nessa reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 8.2% percentile (ranked #879) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 43 births per million (ranked 8.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nessa ranks #898 for girls (5.2% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 72.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nessa".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Nessa is pronounced as NEH-suh, which has 2 syllables.
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