Meaning not yet researched.
Nessa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 63 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,302 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,302 in 2016; #2,744 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nessa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,744 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #2,302.
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Nessa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 63 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,302 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 83 (2016).
In 2025, 63 US girls were named Nessa, making it the 2,744th most common girls’ name of the year, up 138 places from #2,882 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 58 girls named Nessa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,302, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 83. For comparison, it was #3,334 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nessa in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1935 with 5 babies. In all, 1,368 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 458 babies named Nessa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 603 US girls were named Nessa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 83. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,512 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nessa ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #2,327 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nyssa (1,830 babies since 1880), Nisa (1,736 babies since 1880) and Nissa (1,532 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nessa in the open dataset we use.
Nessa is listed as a nickname for Agnes, Vanessa.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | #2,327 | #2,452 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,573 | — |
| California | 6 | #3,011 | #3,284 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,744 | — | — |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,882 | — | — |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,078 | — | — |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,110 | — | — |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,881 | — | — |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,054 | — | — |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,599 | — | — |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,731 | — | — |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 2015 | 49 | #3,334 | — | — |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,524 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,512 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,515 | — | — |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,051 | — | — |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,551 | — | — |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,776 | — | — |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,239 | — | — |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,486 | — | — |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,340 | — | — |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,461 | — | — |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,171 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,221 | — | — |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,057 | — | — |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,540 | — | — |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,404 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,124 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,980 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,247 | — | — |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,960 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,914 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,626 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,611 | — | — |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,648 | — | — |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,163 | — | — |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,364 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,301 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,172 | — | — |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,608 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,454 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,371 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,604 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,815 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,063 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,486 | — | — |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,909 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,800 | — | — |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,845 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,346 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,520 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,291 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,428 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,333 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,170 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,691 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,545 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,382 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,092 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,851 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,711 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).