Ressie
Ressie was last recorded in 1981, when 5 babies were given it; 1,841 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ressie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ressie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,701, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
64 babies in 1923, the peak
Ressie peaked in 1923, when 64 babies were given it (59 girls, #974 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 5 | #11,701 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,827 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,084 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,765 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,705 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,332 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,360 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,187 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,192 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 8 | #5,086 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,075 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,955 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,393 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,097 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,165 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,827 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,732 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,192 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,965 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,398 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,947 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,619 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,427 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,268 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,061 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,292 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,363 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,947 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 17 | #2,023 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,931 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,725 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,681 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,712 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,599 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,707 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,482 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 30 | #1,370 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,799 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,550 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,495 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 47 | #1,122 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 37 | #1,301 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,370 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 42 | #1,241 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 59 | #974 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 50 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 49 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 49 | #1,072 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 45 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 43 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 63 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1916 | 51 | #963 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 57 | #870 | 0.06 |
| 1914 | 37 | #982 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 36 | #897 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 31 | #916 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 25 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 32 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 31 | #729 | 0.09 |
| 1908 | 32 | #694 | 0.10 |
| 1907 | 27 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1906 | 26 | #730 | 0.09 |
| 1905 | 26 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1904 | 18 | #874 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 34 | #564 | 0.13 |
| 1902 | 24 | #710 | 0.09 |
| 1901 | 24 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 21 | #826 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 21 | #698 | 0.09 |
| 1898 | 21 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1897 | 18 | #758 | 0.08 |
| 1896 | 19 | #749 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 13 | #923 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 13 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,156 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 16 | #754 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 11 | #879 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 15 | #716 | 0.08 |
| 1889 | 12 | #789 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 12 | #787 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,276 | 0.03 |
| 1886 | 7 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,142 | 0.04 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,029 | 0.04 |
| 1881 | 5 | #921 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ressie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ressie has been given almost only to girls: 18 boys in 87 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ressie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ressie, and how old are they?
An estimated 256 Americans named Ressie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (14% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 66 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 464 people named Ressie (422 women and girls, 42 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 361 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Ressie born?
The states with the most babies named Ressie are Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky, with 59% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Tennessee and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 129 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Tennessee | 70 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Kentucky | 50 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| South Carolina | 44 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 43 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 35 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Arkansas | 23 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| West Virginia | 15 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Ressie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ressie is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 3.3 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 Ressie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 66,222 babies since 1880, Ressie is the second most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,106 babies recorded by SSA was a Ressie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ressie
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 Ressie and names like it
- Compare Ressie and ReeseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRessie peaked in 1923.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ressie since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Ressie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ressie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.