Tessa
#311 for girls in 2025, 978 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #8,143
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 1,753 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 55,926since 1891
Tessa over time
Rank among girls' names. Tessa has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #311 | 978 | — | |
| 2024 | #303 | 1,036 | — | |
| 2023 | #323 | 964 | — | |
| 2022 | #331 | 973 | — | |
| 2021 | #287 | 1,118 | — | |
| 2020 | #280 | 1,135 | — | |
| 2019 | #260 | 1,268 | — | |
| 2018 | #245 | 1,329 | — | |
| 2017 | #245 | 1,296 | — | |
| 2016 | #229 | 1,395 | — | |
| 2015 | #208 | 1,560 | — | |
| 2014 | #221 | 1,527 | — | |
| 2013 | #244 | 1,324 | — | |
| 2012 | #233 | 1,366 | — | |
| 2011 | #229 | 1,391 | — | |
| 2010 | #221 | 1,427 | — | |
| 2009 | #207 | 1,569 | — | |
| 2008 | #203 | 1,660 | — | |
| 2007 | #190 | 1,753 | — | |
| 2006 | #251 | 1,354 | — | |
| 2005 | #269 | 1,224 | — | |
| 2004 | #275 | 1,184 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #281 | 1,112 | — | |
| 2002 | #294 | 1,064 | — | |
| 2001 | #300 | 1,047 | — | |
| 2000 | #266 | 1,210 | — | |
| 1999 | #251 | 1,248 | — | |
| 1998 | #224 | 1,377 | — | |
| 1997 | #218 | 1,358 | — | |
| 1996 | #226 | 1,254 | — | |
| 1995 | #253 | 1,119 | — | |
| 1994 | #241 | 1,158 | — | |
| 1993 | #218 | 1,259 | — | |
| 1992 | #236 | 1,164 | — | |
| 1991 | #242 | 1,149 | — | |
| 1990 | #290 | 955 | — | |
| 1989 | #370 | 694 | — | |
| 1988 | #406 | 588 | — | |
| 1987 | #402 | 566 | — | |
| 1986 | #375 | 619 | — | |
| 1985 | #343 | 683 | — | |
| 1984 | #307 | 777 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #289 | 816 | — | |
| 1982 | #359 | 650 | — | |
| 1981 | #395 | 571 | — | |
| 1980 | #526 | 361 | — | |
| 1979 | #460 | 438 | — | |
| 1978 | #451 | 441 | — | |
| 1977 | #636 | 262 | — | |
| 1976 | #522 | 341 | — | |
| 1975 | #572 | 289 | — | |
| 1974 | #565 | 285 | — | |
| 1973 | #542 | 309 | — | |
| 1972 | #695 | 209 | — | |
| 1971 | #709 | 215 | — | |
| 1970 | #784 | 180 | — | |
| 1969 | #872 | 144 | — | |
| 1968 | #966 | 115 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,060 | 96 | — | |
| 1966 | #927 | 119 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,004 | 108 | — | |
| 1964 | #876 | 140 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,754 | 43 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,113 | 31 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,640 | 47 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,432 | 24 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,918 | 34 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,085 | 15 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,309 | 13 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,472 | 20 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,490 | 11 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,595 | 17 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,671 | 16 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,694 | 15 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,436 | 17 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,013 | 23 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,070 | 22 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,697 | 32 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,617 | 30 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,332 | 36 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,455 | 31 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 | — | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 | — | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,971 | 7 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,655 | 8 | — | |
| 1921 | #4,023 | 7 | — | |
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 | — | |
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | #2,822 | 11 | — | |
| 1917 | — | — | ||
| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 | — | |
| 1915 | #3,434 | 7 | — | |
| 1914 | — | — | ||
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | #1,877 | 5 | — | |
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | #1,932 | 5 | — | |
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | #1,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1894 | #1,485 | 5 | — | |
| 1893 | #1,175 | 7 | — | |
| 1892 | #1,085 | 8 | — | |
| 1891 | #1,213 | 6 | — | |
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Tessa! It came in at #1,213, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1894–1914, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Tessa
- 8 spots since 2024 (#303 → #311)
- 31 spots since 2020 (#280 → #311)
- 103 spots since 2015 (#208 → #311)
- Biggest jump: 878 spots in 1964 (#1,754 → #876)
- Biggest drop: 133 spots in 1967 (#927 → #1,060)
- Debuted 1891
- Peaked 2007 at #190 (1,753 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 60 yrs · run 1968–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,097 girls born in 2007 were named Tessa (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,643 girls born in 2025 (0.06%)
- 24.8% of all girls named Tessa (13,883) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 31 | #1,085 (1892) | #1,310 |
| 1900s | 10 | #1,877 (1904) | #1,905 |
| 1910s | 23 | #2,822 (1918) | #3,558 |
| 1920s | 37 | #3,655 (1922) | #4,376 |
| 1930s | 11 | #3,847 (1938) | #4,049 |
| 1940s | 183 | #1,332 (1945) | #1,919 |
| 1950s | 165 | #1,918 (1959) | #2,951 |
| 1960s | 867 | #872 (1969) | #1,364 |
| 1970s | 2,969 | #451 (1978) | #594 |
| 1980s | 6,325 | #289 (1983) | #377 |
| 1990s | 12,041 | #218 (1997) | #240 |
| 2000s | 13,177 | #190 (2007) | #254 |
| 2010s | 13,883 | #208 (2015) | #234 |
| 2020s | 6,204 | #280 (2020) | #306 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tessa in 1984
Top girls' names in 1984
Top boys' names in 1984
More about 1984
girls
1,683,817 girls got a published name in 1984; 1 in 2,167 of them was named Tessa, which outranked 97.5% of the 12,181 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,804,848 boys got a published name in 1984; 1 in 360,970 of them was named Tessa, which outranked 14.0% of the 7,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,026 names at #6,315; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.