Hessie
Hessie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 712th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192044 births
- Best rank
- #712in 1881
- Since 1880
- 1,118people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,118 girls have been named Hessie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 44 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 44 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1917, and the 1910s alone account for 23%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1920, its biggest year
Hessie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Hessie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clemmiepeak 1916
- Alphapeak 1916
- Doviepeak 1917
- Myrtlepeak 1918
- Hesterpeak 1918
- Lelapeak 1921
- Dessiepeak 1918
- Gertrudepeak 1917
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.