girls:
10k births since 1880
#1599 (72nd percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1918
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
10k births since 1880
#2676 (65th percentile)
The name Tessie is the #2,676 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,972 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 65.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,599 (72.0% percentile) for all time with 9,962 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1918.
Tessie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1918 for boys).
The name Tessie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tessie reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 49.7% percentile (ranked #291) with 350 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 350 births per million (ranked 49.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tessie ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 1.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Tessie reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #531) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1922.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tessie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Tessie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Tessie is pronounced as TEH-see, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like T EH1 S IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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