Meaning not yet researched.
Dessie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #233 in 1885.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #233 in 1885; #12,231 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dessie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,231 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1885, at #233.
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Dessie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #233 in 1885 · most girls in one year: 308 (1918).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Dessie, making it the 12,231st most common girls’ name of the year, up 276 places from #12,507 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 7 girls named Dessie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #233, reached in 1885. The most girls given the name in a single year was 308, in 1918. For comparison, it was #9,104 in 2015 and #1,074 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dessie in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 36 babies. In all, 11,731 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,474 babies named Dessie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 70 US girls were named Dessie; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Desiree (83,761 babies since 1880), Deasia (4,927 babies since 1880), Desi (3,395 babies since 1880) and Deysi (1,714 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Deisi, Dezzie and Desia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Deisi (574), Dezzie (247), Desia (131), Dessiah (116), Decie (84), Dissie (11), Dessia (11), Deysia (10), Deyssi (7), Dessi (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dessie in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,231 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,507 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,142 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,591 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,530 | — | — |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,639 | — | — |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,831 | — | — |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,603 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,068 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,104 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,240 | — | — |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,769 | — | — |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,468 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,445 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,482 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,747 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,935 | — | — |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,897 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,368 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,986 | — | — |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,114 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,677 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,409 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,333 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,347 | — | — |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,924 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,775 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,511 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,828 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,964 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,024 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,360 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,749 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,548 | 5 | #8,529 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,908 | — | — |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,648 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,374 | — | — |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,133 | — | — |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,066 | — | — |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,173 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,830 | — | — |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,983 | — | — |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,676 | — | — |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,589 | — | — |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,695 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,502 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,603 | 5 | #6,086 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,689 | — | — |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,423 | — | — |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,776 | — | — |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,467 | — | — |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,690 | — | — |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,955 | — | — |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,035 | — | — |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,727 | — | — |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,510 | — | — |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1963 | 45 | #1,721 | 7 | #3,400 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 1961 | 50 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 1960 | 53 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 1958 | 50 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1957 | 51 | #1,495 | 7 | #3,322 |
| 1956 | 55 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1955 | 51 | #1,408 | 9 | #2,816 |
| 1954 | 62 | #1,259 | 5 | #3,960 |
| 1953 | 62 | #1,227 | 7 | #3,207 |
| 1952 | 61 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1951 | 72 | #1,100 | 5 | #3,840 |
| 1950 | 74 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1949 | 87 | #959 | 5 | #3,817 |
| 1948 | 72 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1947 | 79 | #993 | — | — |
| 1946 | 71 | #999 | 5 | #3,647 |
| 1945 | 86 | #816 | 7 | #2,814 |
| 1944 | 83 | #838 | 6 | #3,192 |
| 1943 | 81 | #864 | 6 | #3,305 |
| 1942 | 110 | #709 | — | — |
| 1941 | 96 | #720 | 5 | #3,625 |
| 1940 | 100 | #697 | — | — |
| 1939 | 118 | #621 | 7 | #2,898 |
| 1938 | 90 | #723 | 7 | #2,935 |
| 1937 | 119 | #622 | 9 | #2,534 |
| 1936 | 137 | #558 | 6 | #3,241 |
| 1935 | 124 | #579 | 7 | #3,028 |
| 1934 | 128 | #568 | 9 | #2,608 |
| 1933 | 120 | #589 | 7 | #3,083 |
| 1932 | 183 | #489 | — | — |
| 1931 | 165 | #505 | 6 | #3,485 |
| 1930 | 185 | #489 | 8 | #3,089 |
| 1929 | 186 | #493 | 7 | #3,311 |
| 1928 | 201 | #482 | 7 | #3,439 |
| 1927 | 233 | #455 | 7 | #3,541 |
| 1926 | 221 | #463 | 7 | #3,466 |
| 1925 | 217 | #469 | 11 | #2,631 |
| 1924 | 239 | #450 | 11 | #2,693 |
| 1923 | 256 | #420 | 9 | #3,003 |
| 1922 | 269 | #402 | 14 | #2,268 |
| 1921 | 273 | #409 | 9 | #3,039 |
| 1920 | 283 | #392 | 14 | #2,247 |
| 1919 | 281 | #387 | 7 | #3,488 |
| 1918 | 308 | #371 | 7 | #3,458 |
| 1917 | 256 | #393 | 7 | #3,305 |
| 1916 | 283 | #368 | 11 | #2,418 |
| 1915 | 283 | #356 | 9 | #2,679 |
| 1914 | 225 | #353 | 6 | #2,997 |
| 1913 | 197 | #345 | — | — |
| 1912 | 155 | #373 | 5 | #2,638 |
| 1911 | 175 | #298 | — | — |
| 1910 | 164 | #303 | — | — |
| 1909 | 144 | #298 | — | — |
| 1908 | 140 | #299 | — | — |
| 1907 | 134 | #302 | 6 | #1,230 |
| 1906 | 121 | #304 | — | — |
| 1905 | 131 | #290 | — | — |
| 1904 | 125 | #284 | — | — |
| 1903 | 128 | #274 | — | — |
| 1902 | 121 | #285 | — | — |
| 1901 | 107 | #291 | — | — |
| 1900 | 125 | #294 | 7 | #1,074 |
| 1899 | 110 | #273 | — | — |
| 1898 | 110 | #295 | — | — |
| 1897 | 112 | #270 | — | — |
| 1896 | 108 | #278 | — | — |
| 1895 | 98 | #282 | — | — |
| 1894 | 106 | #267 | — | — |
| 1893 | 109 | #251 | — | — |
| 1892 | 97 | #269 | — | — |
| 1891 | 87 | #263 | 6 | #871 |
| 1890 | 102 | #244 | — | — |
| 1889 | 70 | #284 | — | — |
| 1888 | 78 | #261 | — | — |
| 1887 | 43 | #325 | — | — |
| 1886 | 52 | #285 | — | — |
| 1885 | 72 | #233 | — | — |
| 1884 | 61 | #247 | — | — |
| 1883 | 39 | #283 | — | — |
| 1882 | 47 | #250 | — | — |
| 1881 | 42 | #244 | — | — |
| 1880 | 36 | #255 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).