girls:
2k births since 1957
#3793 (34th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1957
#5740 (26th percentile)
The name Contessa is the #5,740 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,039 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 25.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,793 (33.6% percentile) for all time with 2,039 births since 1957.
Contessa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (first recorded for girls in 1957). Birth data for Contessa is available in 65 out of the 67 years between 1957 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Contessa reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 16.2% percentile (ranked #650) with 73 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 73 births per million (ranked 16.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Contessa ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 9.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Contessa".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Contessa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.1% confident that Contessa is pronounced as kahn-TEH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuhn-TEH-suh, at 36.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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