# Dessie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dessie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,731 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 317 / 11,414 (97% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | 15,482 |
| 2011 | 9 | 11,445 |
| 2012 | 6 | 15,468 |
| 2013 | 11 | 9,769 |
| 2014 | 5 | 17,240 |
| 2015 | 12 | 9,104 |
| 2016 | 8 | 12,068 |
| 2017 | 6 | 14,603 |
| 2018 | 7 | 12,831 |
| 2019 | 8 | 11,639 |
| 2021 | 7 | 12,530 |
| 2022 | 9 | 10,591 |
| 2023 | 11 | 9,142 |
| 2024 | 7 | 12,507 |
| 2025 | 7 | 12,231 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 7 | 2,898 |
| 1941 | 5 | 3,625 |
| 1943 | 6 | 3,305 |
| 1944 | 6 | 3,192 |
| 1945 | 7 | 2,814 |
| 1946 | 5 | 3,647 |
| 1949 | 5 | 3,817 |
| 1951 | 5 | 3,840 |
| 1953 | 7 | 3,207 |
| 1954 | 5 | 3,960 |
| 1955 | 9 | 2,816 |
| 1957 | 7 | 3,322 |
| 1963 | 7 | 3,400 |
| 1977 | 5 | 6,086 |
| 1991 | 5 | 8,529 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.