Besse
About 671 American babies have been named Besse since 1880, most of them around 1889. It has not appeared in the national data since 1926. About 1 Besses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 101.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Besse
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 671
- Estimated living today
- 1
- Median age today
- 101
- Peak year
- 1889
- Best rank
- 388th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Besses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 671 babies given the name since 1880, about 1 are alive — 0 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1924 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Names of 1889
The most popular girls’ names the year Besse peaked:
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Besse against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.