girls:
53.9k births since 1891
#548 (90th percentile)
boys:
13 births since 1984
#4573 (0th percentile)
overall:
53.9k births since 1891
#1028 (87th percentile)
The name Tessa is the #1,028 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 53,900 recorded births since 1891. This represents the 86.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #548 (90.4% percentile) for all time with 53,887 births since 1891. For boys, it ranks #4,573 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 13 births since 1984.
Tessa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1891 (1891 for girls and 1984 for boys). Birth data for Tessa is available in 99 out of the 133 years between 1891 and 2023 (99 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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.
The name Tessa has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tessa reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 80.9% percentile (ranked #189) with 828 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 828 births per million (ranked 80.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tessa ranks #305 for girls (67.9% percentile) with 549 births per million, which is 66.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Tessa reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #844) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tessa".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Tessa is pronounced as TEH-suh, which has 2 syllables.
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