Wessie Popularity by Year

Follow Wessie across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Wessie birth-count history

The chart samples long histories for faster loading. The complete table below includes every recorded year.

Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1956	Girls	5	#5,952	Down 279 places
1953	Girls	5	#5,673	Down 2,978 places
1943	Girls	12	#2,695	Up 864 places
1941	Girls	7	#3,559	Down 1,111 places
1937	Girls	12	#2,448	Up 1,253 places
1936	Girls	6	#3,701	Up 503 places
1935	Girls	5	#4,204	Down 1,045 places
1934	Girls	8	#3,159	Down 112 places
1932	Girls	9	#3,047	Up 611 places
1930	Girls	7	#3,658	Up 395 places
1929	Girls	6	#4,053	Down 1,099 places
1928	Girls	10	#2,954	Down 402 places
1927	Girls	13	#2,552	Down 476 places
1926	Girls	18	#2,076	Up 1,588 places
1925	Girls	8	#3,664	Down 520 places
1924	Girls	10	#3,144	Down 227 places
1923	Girls	11	#2,917	Down 890 places
1922	Girls	19	#2,027	Up 914 places
1921	Girls	11	#2,941	Down 42 places
1920	Girls	11	#2,899	Down 743 places
1919	Girls	16	#2,156	Down 351 places
1918	Girls	21	#1,805	Up 747 places
1917	Girls	12	#2,552	Down 524 places
1916	Girls	16	#2,028	Down 64 places
1915	Girls	16	#1,964	Up 470 places
1914	Girls	9	#2,434	Down 400 places
1913	Girls	10	#2,034	Down 557 places
1912	Girls	14	#1,477	Up 986 places
1911	Girls	5	#2,463	Down 690 places
1910	Girls	8	#1,773	Up 435 places
1909	Girls	5	#2,208	Down 346 places
1908	Girls	6	#1,862	Down 223 places
1907	Girls	7	#1,639	Down 47 places
1903	Girls	6	#1,592	Up 340 places
1900	Girls	5	#1,932	Down 232 places
1898	Girls	5	#1,700	Down 463 places
1894	Girls	7	#1,237	Up 200 places
1893	Girls	5	#1,437	Down 158 places
1889	Girls	5	#1,279	—