Dessie

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Ethiopian: town in Welo Province

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dɛsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Dessie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 131K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 250K
  • SESweden1 in 425K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dessie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,537 people, 2020

Sources
30 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 131K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Ethiopian: town in Welo Province

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dessie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Dessie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2,5371 in 131K2.4KDessie30
BR Brazil—30as Dese1 in 7.1M63Dessie9
SE Sweden—241 in 425K24——
NL Netherlands—51 in 3.5M5—1
GY Guyana—31 in 250K3——
IS Iceland—1as Dese1 in 351K1——
CU Cuba#647———Dessie2

2,537 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dessie is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Amharic given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States, Israel

    Also written ደሴ, Dasee, Dese

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Côte d’Ivoire, United Kingdom

    Also written Dessié

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ethiopia, United Kingdom

    Also written Dese

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Dessie Glynn, b. 1928Dessie Hughes, b. 1943Dessie Grew, b. 1953Dessie Gorman, b. 1964Dessie Larkin, b. 1969Dessie Baker, b. 1977Dessie Dolan, b. 1979Dessie Finnegan, b. 1984

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Dessie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.4K#6,355
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1918308—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1920283—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1916283—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1915283—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1919281—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1921273—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1922269—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1923256—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1917256—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1924239—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1927233—

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dessie mean, and where does it come from?
Ethiopian: town in Welo Province Recorded by African Names.
Is Dessie a male or female name?
Dessie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
How do you pronounce Dessie?
A machine transcription gives /dɛsi/ (IPA) for English.
What are other forms of the name Dessie?
In the etymology graph, Desmond, Desi and Dezi are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Dessie have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Dessie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dessie.
Where is Dessie most common?
Dessie is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 131 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Dessie?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,537 people named Dessie in 2020, about 1 in 131 thousand residents.
How common is Dessie compared with other names?
In Cuba, Dessie is the 647th most common given name of 6,267 given names recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dessie

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dessie” — the 647th most common given name in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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