Entry № 1397 · English origin

Bessie Bessie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BES-see /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Consecrated to God (Bessie Coleman, first Black female pilot)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "consecrated to god (bessie coleman, first black female pilot)".

Bessie is a diminutive of Elizabeth — from the Hebrew Elisheba ("my God is my oath").

Consecrated to God. First Black female pilot; Bessie Smith was the Empress of the Blues.

The name in its native script.

Bessie
Transliteration
Bessie
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɛs.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bessie stands.

Bessie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Bessies before her.

Real people
Bessie Coleman
First Black female pilot.
1892 – 1926
Bessie Smith
Empress of the Blues.
1894 – 1937
In fiction
Bessie
Native Son.
1940

Names connected to Bessie.

The number behind Bessie.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bessie reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.