Ressie
Ressie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 564th, in 1903.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191763 births
- Best rank
- #564in 1903
- Since 1881
- 1,823people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,823 girls have been named Ressie in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 63 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 63 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ressie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 51 | |
| 1890s | 155 | |
| 1900s | 263 | |
| 1910s | 420 | |
| 1920s | 423 | |
| 1930s | 220 | |
| 1940s | 146 | |
| 1950s | 68 | |
| 1960s | 55 | |
| 1970s | 17 | |
| 1980s | 5 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Ressie was the 875th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Ressie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Exiepeak 1921
- Maybellpeak 1919
- Erapeak 1916
- Violapeak 1918
- Lessiepeak 1916
- Beulahpeak 1916
- Maudiepeak 1918
- Eulahpeak 1915
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.