Wessie

Last seen for girls in 1956 at #5,952

Peak · girls
1894 · 7 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
371
since 1889

Wessie over time

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Rank among girls' names. Wessie has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201915peak #1,237, 1894girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1956#5,9525
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1943#2,69512
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1937#2,44812
1936#3,7016
1935#4,2045
1934#3,1598
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1930#3,6587
1929#4,0536
1928#2,95410
1927#2,55213
1926#2,07618
1925#3,6648
1924#3,14410
1923#2,91711
1922#2,02719
1921#2,94111
1920#2,89911
1919#2,15616
1918#1,80521
1917#2,55212
1916#2,02816
1915#1,96416
1914#2,4349
1913#2,03410
1912#1,47714
1911#2,4635
1910#1,7738
1909#2,2085
1908#1,8626
1907#1,6397
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1903#1,5926
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1900#1,9325
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1898#1,7005
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1894#1,2377
1893#1,4375
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1889#1,2795
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First appearance
1889

The first year at least five girls were named Wessie! It came in at #1,279, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1889–1893, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Wessie
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1956
Rise & fade · girls
5 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1889
  • Peaked 1894 at #1,237 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1895, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 31,846
  • Highest: 1 in 31,846 girls born in 1894 were named Wessie (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 401,541 girls born in 1956 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 34.2% of all girls named Wessie (127) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#1,279 (1889)#1,279
1890s17#1,237 (1894)#1,458
1900s29#1,592 (1903)#1,847
1910s127#1,477 (1912)#2,069
1920s117#2,027 (1922)#2,923
1930s47#2,448 (1937)#3,370
1940s19#2,695 (1943)#3,127
1950s10#5,673 (1953)#5,813

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Wessie in 1915

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#1,964
16 births · 1 in 61,491 girls

Top girls' names in 1915

  1. #1Mary58,187
  2. #2Helen30,866
  3. #3Dorothy25,154
  4. #4Margaret23,054
  5. #5Ruth21,878
  6. #6Mildred15,254
  7. #7Anna15,119
  8. #8Elizabeth14,103
  9. #9Frances12,786
  10. #10Evelyn11,595
  11. #1,964Wessie16
More about 1915

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983,852 girls got a published name in 1915; 1 in 61,491 of them was named Wessie, which outranked 60.5% of the 4,967 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wessie
  1. #1,883Victorine17
  2. #1,883Weltha17
  3. #1,883Willma17
  4. #1,964Wessie16
  5. #1,964Alison16
  6. #1,964Angelyn16
  7. #1,964Annamay16
  8. #2,050Aldene15
  9. #2,050Aleda15
  10. #2,050Alfred15

Tied with 85 names at #1,964; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1914
Risers
  1. 500Gerda#1,444#944
  2. 451Theda#1,034#583
  3. 441Dominga#1,385#944
  4. 354Vernon#1,344#990
  5. 308Loyce#1,147#839
Fallers
  1. 383Drusilla#956#1,339
  2. 342Rossie#798#1,140
  3. 335Arlie#855#1,190
  4. 329Orene#956#1,285
  5. 329Margot#988#1,317

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1915