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The first name 
Dessie

Dessie is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.

Dessie – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Dessie has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Dessie. That means that a girl named Dessie is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Dessie.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Dessie

Dessie -
a special name with a long history going back to the 19th century

Dessie is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2020, where the name Dessie was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Dessie and were born in the USA in 2020, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Dessie even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1885, it ranked on position 229 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Dessie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Happy Birthday - 9 girls named Dessie celebrate their second birthday this year!

Although the name Dessie has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 9 times and thus landed on position 9,013 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 9 girls with the name Dessie, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.

Dessie has 6 letters 
and begins with a D

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.

With six letters, the name Dessie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Dessie

If your name is Dessie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Dessie

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dessie, you can simply say:

Dinosaur

Elephant

Sun

Sun

Igloo

Elephant

This is how the name Dessie is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Dessie in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Dessie

Dessie

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Dessie

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Dessie is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

D
E
S
S
I
E

Have you ever waved the name Dessie

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

D
E
S
S
I
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Dessie sounds like this: