Meaning not yet researched.
Tess: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 113 in 2025. Its best rank was #467 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #467 in 1992; #1,794 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tess in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,794 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #467.
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Tess: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 113 girls in 2025. Peak: #467 in 1992 · most girls in one year: 529 (1992).
In 2025, 113 US girls were named Tess, making it the 1,794th most common girls’ name of the year, down 26 places from #1,768 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 115 girls named Tess in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #467, reached in 1992. That year also had the most girls given the name: 529. For comparison, it was #1,120 in 2015 and #5,245 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tess in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 6 babies. In all, 14,770 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,559 babies named Tess.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,523 US girls were named Tess; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 217. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,224 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tess ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #679 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tyus (1,077 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tish, Tyese and Tyse are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Teresa and Theresa.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tish (797), Tyese (322), Tyse (121), Theus (59), Theos (40), Tiese (24), Tyas (20), Tesse (15), Tes (10), Tez (6), Thys (5).
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.
Tess is listed as a nickname for Teresa, Theresa.
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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 8 | #679 | #442 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #780 | #739 |
| Utah | 5 | #826 | #453 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,172 | #1,386 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,229 | #719 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,611 | #868 |
| New York | 8 | #1,643 | #1,133 |
| California | 14 | #1,644 | #1,810 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,680 | #1,151 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,375 | #1,795 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 113 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 2023 | 117 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 2021 | 142 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 2020 | 175 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 2019 | 158 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 2018 | 176 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 2017 | 203 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 2016 | 217 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 2015 | 229 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 2014 | 235 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 2013 | 251 | #999 | — | — |
| 2012 | 255 | #993 | — | — |
| 2011 | 283 | #921 | — | — |
| 2010 | 338 | #810 | — | — |
| 2009 | 342 | #826 | — | — |
| 2008 | 322 | #867 | — | — |
| 2007 | 311 | #892 | — | — |
| 2006 | 385 | #730 | — | — |
| 2005 | 461 | #613 | — | — |
| 2004 | 424 | #647 | — | — |
| 2003 | 494 | #566 | — | — |
| 2002 | 417 | #614 | — | — |
| 2001 | 393 | #642 | — | — |
| 2000 | 475 | #551 | — | — |
| 1999 | 437 | #573 | — | — |
| 1998 | 430 | #572 | — | — |
| 1997 | 448 | #533 | — | — |
| 1996 | 409 | #569 | — | — |
| 1995 | 435 | #547 | — | — |
| 1994 | 478 | #522 | — | — |
| 1993 | 524 | #481 | — | — |
| 1992 | 529 | #467 | — | — |
| 1991 | 465 | #507 | — | — |
| 1990 | 404 | #574 | — | — |
| 1989 | 270 | #733 | — | — |
| 1988 | 183 | #929 | — | — |
| 1987 | 185 | #904 | — | — |
| 1986 | 194 | #855 | — | — |
| 1985 | 218 | #778 | — | — |
| 1984 | 216 | #753 | — | — |
| 1983 | 191 | #813 | — | — |
| 1982 | 133 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 1981 | 104 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,522 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,396 | — | — |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,933 | — | — |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,748 | — | — |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,506 | — | — |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 1972 | 49 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1971 | 80 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 1970 | 94 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1969 | 92 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1968 | 79 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,261 | — | — |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,531 | — | — |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,816 | — | — |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,910 | — | — |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,826 | — | — |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,569 | — | — |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,972 | — | — |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,530 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,184 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,903 | — | — |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,956 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,244 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,617 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,352 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,245 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,980 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,968 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #6,048 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,364 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,309 | — | — |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,593 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #5,019 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,295 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,881 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,794 | — | — |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,418 | — | — |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,380 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,018 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,507 | — | — |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,368 | — | — |
| 1927 | 11 | #3,031 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,262 | — | — |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,938 | — | — |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,503 | — | — |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,102 | — | — |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,108 | — | — |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,068 | — | — |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1918 | 18 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,788 | — | — |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,930 | — | — |
| 1905 | 13 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1900 | 11 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,261 | — | — |
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).