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Pessy

The girl's name Pessy has been in the national records since 1971, with 1,207 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,167th. About 1,200 Pessys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Pessy

By the numbers

Total US births
1,207
Estimated living today
1,200
Median age today
12
Peak year
2021
Best rank
2,715th
Rank in 2025
3,167th
First recorded
1971

How old the living Pessys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,207 babies given the name since 1971, about 1,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 830 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 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.

Where Pessy is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Pessy is most concentrated in New York (12.4×), New Jersey (1.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2021

The most popular girls’ names the year Pessy peaked:

All the names of 2021

Pessy elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Pessy 46 3,397th
France boys Pessy 5 3,672nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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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.