Pessy
Pessy was given to 50 girls in 2025, #3,202 among girls’ names; 1,207 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Pessy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pessy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pessy?
#3,202 among girls’ names, 2025
Pessy rose from #3,464 in 2015 to #3,202 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 25.8 to 31.1 per million.
63 babies in 2021, the peak
Pessy peaked in 2021, when 63 girls were given it, #2,744 among girls’ names. The 50 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,202 | 31.1 |
| 2024 | 55 | #3,004 | 33.9 |
| 2023 | 56 | #3,007 | 34.9 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,639 | 26.2 |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,744 | 38.4 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,706 | 38.4 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,705 | 24.4 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,038 | 31.7 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,750 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,330 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,464 | 25.8 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,700 | 23.5 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,558 | 25.1 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,634 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,647 | 24.4 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,798 | 23.1 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,350 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,153 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,640 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,657 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,476 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,171 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,777 | 14.8 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,224 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,750 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,634 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,647 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,899 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,288 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,645 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,557 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,466 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,932 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,197 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,046 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,308 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,521 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,185 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,273 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,095 | 4.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,869 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,840 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,294 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,727 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,236 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pessy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pessy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pessy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pessy, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,207 Americans ever recorded as Pessy. The median Pessy alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 846 people named Pessy (836 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 885 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 23 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 122 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 423 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 627 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Pessy born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 44 | #401 | 12.8× |
Where Pessy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Pessy is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 12.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Pessy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pessy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Pessy and names like it
- Compare Pessy and NailaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sPessy peaked in 2021.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pessy since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Pessy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Pessy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.