Tessa

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Tessa is ranked 303rd among girls in 2024 (1,034 births). Its best rank was 190th, in 2007.

Rank in 2024: #303up 20 from 2023
Births in 2024: 1,0340.06% of girls
Peak year: 20071,753 births
Best rank: #190in 2007
Since 1891: 54,936people given the name

Babies named Tessa, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

54,936 girls have been named Tessa in the United States since 1891, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 1,753 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 221 → 303).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2010s alone account for 25%. It has spent 59 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Tessa
1890s	31
1900s	10
1910s	23
1920s	37
1930s	11
1940s	183
1950s	165
1960s	867
1970s	2,969
1980s	6,325
1990s	12,041
2000s	13,175
2010s	13,878
2020s	5,221

In 2007, its biggest year

Tessa was the 190th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2007 were Emily, Isabella, Emma, Ava and Madison. See all of 2007.

Names that rose and fell with Tessa

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

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.