Dessa Girls

The U.S. popularity history of Dessa: every year it appeared on the national list since 1880, with 1,817 recorded births in total. All figures come from official Social Security card application data.

Total recorded births

1,817

Peak year

2001 #4044

Years on the list

142

10-year trend

-40.9%

In the 2000s ·

Popularity history

1880–2025

Year	Births	Rank
2011	17	#7204
2012	19	#6671
2013	19	#6541
2014	15	#7770
2015	20	#6293
2016	19	#6485
2017	18	#6607
2018	14	#7877
2019	22	#5659
2020	20	#5918
2021	5	#15858
2022	11	#9212
2023	8	#11462
2024	15	#7334
2025	16	#6910

Most recent years shown. The full curve above covers every year the name appeared.

Where {name} was most used in 2001

State-level records for this name and year are not published (names with fewer than 5 births in a state are suppressed).

Names from the same era

Julia · 2001 Madison · 2001 Mackenzie · 2001 Elisabeth · 2001 Nayeli · 2001 India · 2001 Precious · 2001 Regan · 2001 Kaleigh · 2001 Macey · 2001

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