Meaning not yet researched.
Pessy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,706 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,706 in 2020; #3,202 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Pessy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,202 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #2,706.
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Pessy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,706 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 63 (2021).
In 2025, 50 US girls were named Pessy, making it the 3,202nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 198 places from #3,004 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 55 girls named Pessy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,706, reached in 2020. The most girls given the name in a single year was 63, in 2021. For comparison, it was #3,464 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pessy in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 1,207 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 430 babies named Pessy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 499 US girls were named Pessy; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,145 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Pessie and Pessi 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Pessie (29), Pessi (29).
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 Pessy 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 | 50 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 2024 | 55 | #3,004 | — | — |
| 2023 | 56 | #3,007 | — | — |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,641 | — | — |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,744 | — | — |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,706 | — | — |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,706 | — | — |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,039 | — | — |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,751 | — | — |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,331 | — | — |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,464 | — | — |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,702 | — | — |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,560 | — | — |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,635 | — | — |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,648 | — | — |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,799 | — | — |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,351 | — | — |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,154 | — | — |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,641 | — | — |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,658 | — | — |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,481 | — | — |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,175 | — | — |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,782 | — | — |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,228 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,755 | — | — |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,639 | — | — |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,654 | — | — |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,905 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,293 | — | — |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,650 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,562 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,472 | — | — |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,938 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,204 | — | — |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,052 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,314 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,526 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,190 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,277 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,098 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,872 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,842 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,296 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,729 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,238 | — | — |
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).