Quessie — girls' name

What the Data Says About Quessie

The Social Security Administration has registered 15 babies named Quessie between 1917 and 1926, spanning 10 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Quessie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1926. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 5 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Quessie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 10 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Quessie shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Quessie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Quessie 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 15 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.