Given name & surname

Pessi

Pessi is a given name. It is used in English and Finnish.

Meaning & origin

How it developed

Built from English penalty + Messi.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Pessi through the years

Babies since 1880
29
0 boys · 29 girls
Most popular year
2021
8 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
02462025Highest share 20210.0
Pessi in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2010–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

PessiPessyPekka

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Pessi’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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