Pessie — girls' name

What the Data Says About Pessie

The Social Security Administration has registered 29 babies named Pessie between 1987 and 2015, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pessie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 7 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pessie performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 12 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Pessie shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Pessie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pessie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 29 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.