Bessy
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bessy is a given name, most frequently recorded in Honduras, where it is the 79th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth; today more often spelled Bessie.
- HNHonduras1 in 1.4K◐
- SVEl Salvador1 in 6.4K
- USUnited States1 in 159K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.1K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 132 ●
- 1 in 159K ◐
across 3 countries
recorded for this name
24K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth; today more often spelled Bessie.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HN Honduras | #79 | 13,223 | 13K rec. | — | — | Bessy | 30 |
| SV El Salvador | #411 | 4,251 | 3.2K rec. | — | — | Bessy | 19 |
| US United States | — | 2,088 | 4K rec. | 1 in 159K | 2.1K | Bessy | 132 |
| PE Peru | — | 1,358 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Bessy | 25 |
| ES Spain | — | 893 | 546 rec. | — | — | Bessy | 43 |
| CL Chile | — | 585 | 57 rec. | — | 1 | Bessy | 27 |
| KE Kenya | — | 525 | 270 rec. | — | — | Bessy | 13 |
| IN India | — | 373 | 336 rec. | — | 11 | Bessy | 17 |
| MX Mexico | — | 212 | 177 rec. | — | — | Bessy | 25 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 143 | 130 rec. | — | — | Bessy | 10 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 139 | 238 rec. | — | — | Bessy | 14 |
| GT Guatemala | — | 133 | 106 rec. | — | — | Bessy | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish25K65%
- English7.5K20%
- Swahili1.1K3%
- 9172%
- Hindi4301%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 24,798 | 65% |
| English | 7,535 | 20% |
| Swahili | 1,058 | 3% |
| 917 | 2% | |
| Hindi | 430 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Bessy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Bessie: weibl. Vom., englische
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1914 | 5 |
| 1917 | 5 |
| 1918 | 5 |
| 1923 | 10 |
| 1924 | 5 |
| 1927 | 6 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 9 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 11 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 6 |
| 2001 | 13 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 9 |
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 6 |
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2014 | 9 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2017 | 9 |
| 2018 | 8 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 10 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2024 | 6 |
| 2025 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 46 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Bessy Gallardob. 1984CLChilean politician
- Bessy Diazb. 2002HNHonduran association football player
- Bessy FerreraHNhuman rights activist in Honduras
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 18 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.1K | #7,308 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 119 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 109 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 102 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 101 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 92 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 87 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 84 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 75 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 206 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bessy?
- We estimate roughly 2.1 thousand people bear Bessy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bessy have the most bearers?
- Bessy is most frequently recorded in Honduras, where it is most often spelled bessy.
- How common is Bessy compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Bessy is the 79th most common given name of 23,431 given names recorded there.
- Is Bessy a male or female name?
- Bessy 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.
- What does the name Bessy mean?
- Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth; today more often spelled Bessie.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Bessy” — the 79th most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.