How popular is the name Tessa?

Tessa ranks 509th among girls' names in US records, with 54,949 births since 1891. Over the past decade it accounts for 12,065.

Is Tessa a unisex name?

No. Tessa is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

2007, when 1,753 children were given the name. It has been in use for 134 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#509 of girl names

Pronounced T EH1 S AH0 (ARPABET)

Tessa is a girls' name, and first appears in 1891. It has been given to 54,949 children — the 509th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 2007, when 1,753 children were given it.

2007Girls: 1,753Boys: 0

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Tessa?: Tessa ranks 509th among girls' names in US records, with 54,949 births since 1891. Over the past decade it accounts for 12,065.
Is Tessa a unisex name?: No. Tessa is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Tessa most popular?: 2007, when 1,753 children were given the name. It has been in use for 134 years and is still recorded as of 2024.