Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Bessie

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Bessie
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99.8% from peak

Peak era

1916

Peak rank proxy

4,122

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19162024

Peak year

1916

Decline from peak

99.8%

2024

All-time

170,123

Bessie once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1916, when 4,122 girls were named Bessie.

In 2024, only 10 girls were given the name.

Down 99.8% from its peak.

All told, about 170,123 Americans have been named Bessie and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.8% from peak

19164,122 girls named Bessie

202410 girls named Bessie

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