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NAMES LIKE BESS
Same rise and fall as Bess, around the same years.
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Bess name popularity
Bess has been given to 7,176 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 1889, when 182 babies got the name, and its best rank was #253 in 1887.
In 2025, 5 babies were named Bess (#24,763 in the country), 97% below the peak. That is down 17% from 2015.
Almost every Bess is a girl.
An estimated 1.4K people named Bess are alive in the US today, with a median age of 52.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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