Nessa
Nessa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 58 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 580.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 201683 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1935
- 1,304people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,304 girls have been named Nessa in the United States since 1935, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 83 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 35%.
By decade
In 2016, its biggest year
Nessa was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Nessa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aviapeak 2016
- Kalilapeak 2019
- Aminahpeak 2017
- Neemapeak 2019
- Meerapeak 2024
- Zarinapeak 2015
- Andipeak 2023
- Irinapeak 2024
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.