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Bessie name image The table below indicates the number of times the name Bessie has been given to baby boys in recent years.  The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.  The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years. 

Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Bessie
Use of the Name Bessie for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years50 Years25 Years10 Years5 Years2 Years1 Year
213000000
The table below indicates the number of times the name Bessie has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.  Bessie last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1975, the last year shown on the table.  A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Bessie
 Used as a Boy NameUsed as a Girl Name
YearRankCountRankCount
1880  23794
1881658822903
18826569181,144
1883  181,241
18849855151,451
18857717131,588
18869805121,791
18879435131,838
188858012102,279
1889805792,342
1890  112,370
18917128122,323
189260512132,541
18937768152,352
189452215132,520
18958857152,543
189664712182,435
18979526172,407
1898  162,647
1899  192,280
190079311153,044
190163811212,183
19029437192,448
190358115212,338
1904  212,341
19058439202,445
1906  212,395
190782011302,310
1908  342,198
190990011352,274
191093612372,387
1911  402,269
1912  432,826
1913  472,937
1914  553,258
1915  573,884
1916  564,121
1917  613,923
1918  614,096
1919  594,108
1920  713,893
1921  753,673
1922  813,452
1923  813,384
1924  863,404
1925  873,269
1926  893,038
1927  882,978
1928  1002,672
1929  1072,380
1930  1102,374
1931  1132,119
1932  1172,093
1933  1171,882
1934  1281,834
1935  1291,744
1936  1361,641
1937  1431,548
1938  1551,421
1939  1581,363
1940  1611,299
1941  1731,175
1942  1761,266
1943  1901,141
1944  1891,120
1945  1911,066
1946  2251,022
1947  2331,019
1948  236996
1949  241947
1950  271793
1951  284759
1952  297731
1953  325643
1954  330654
1955  382533
1956  396517
1957  435465
1958  450445
1959  490394
1960  493385
1961  560315
1962  536331
1963  574294
1964  579291
1965  580272
1966  683204
1967  713187
1968  792160
1969  820157
1970  847159
1971  923140
1972  866148
1973  993119
1974    
1975  957131
Totals:  213 168,014

During the last 125 years, parents have used Bessie as a boy's name about 0% of the time and more frequently (about 99% of the time) as a girl's name.  Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are significantly lower than actual counts because the name Bessie appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 23 times during the last 125 years.

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