Sossy — girls' name
11 babies named Sossy in U.S. Social Security records since 2022, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
100% of everyone ever named Sossy was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Sossy in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sossy
The Social Security Administration has registered 11 babies named Sossy between 2022 and 2023, spanning 2 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sossy currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 6 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sossy performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Sossy in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sossy 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 11 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.
Sossy at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sossy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–2022
- Peak year (2023)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 2 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
11 total births across 2 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 6 births in a single year.
Sossy by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 11 births that decade — 100% of Sossy's all-time total
Sossy decade highlights
- Peak decade 11 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Sossy's strongest decade
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 100% of all-time use.
Sossy by state
Where Sossy concentrates geographically — total births since 2022
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 6 | 54.5% |
6 of 11 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 54.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 54.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2022–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.