Bess
Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation2025 rank
#15,307
not recorded in 2025
2025 births
5
All-time births
7,171
0% of them in 2025
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1889
- 182 births
- Best rank
- #157
- in 1887
- First recorded
- 1880
- #227 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1918
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 142 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1889182#164Peak
- 1892177#190
- 1894177#197
- 1893169#197
- 1888164#176
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #157 in 1887 · peak births 182 in 1889
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 0% boys■ 100% girls
5 boys · 7,171 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Bess has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.