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Vessie

Vessie reached its high-water mark in 1917 at number 1,605, and has been recorded 518 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1952. About 50 Vessies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 81.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Vessie boys named Vessie

By the numbers

Total US births
518
Estimated living today
50
Median age today
81
Peak year
1917
Best rank
1,605th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1881
Girls / boys
513 / 5

How old the living Vessies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 518 babies given the name since 1881, about 50 are alive — 9 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1944 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 Vessie is most common

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

Names of 1917

The most popular girls’ names the year Vessie peaked:

All the names of 1917

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Vessie 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.