Nessie
Recorded for girlsSilent Generation2025 rank
#16,583
up +411 places
2025 births
5
unchanged births
All-time births
97
5% of them in 2025
More common than
62%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1915
- 10 births
- Best rank
- #1,965
- in 1902
- First recorded
- 1902
- #1,965 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1932
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 16 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 191510#2,843Peak
- 19188#3,769
- 19147#3,095
- 19167#3,819
- 19197#4,138
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #1,965 in 1902 · peak births 10 in 1915
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 Nessie has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The boys' series
No boys have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.