Meaning not yet researched.
Tessa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 978 in 2025. Its best rank was #190 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #190 in 2007; #311 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tessa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#311 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #190.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Tessa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 978 girls in 2025. Peak: #190 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 1,753 (2007).
In 2025, 978 US girls were named Tessa, making it the 311th most common girls’ name of the year, down 8 places from #303 in 2024. That is 58 fewer than the 1,036 girls named Tessa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #190, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,753. For comparison, it was #208 in 2015 and #2,524 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tessa in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1891 with 6 babies. In all, 55,939 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 13,883 babies named Tessa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,492 US girls were named Tessa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,395. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,643 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tessa ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #136 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tisa (1,447 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tesa, Tessah and Teasa 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, English and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tesa (1,382), Tessah (267), Teasa (42), Tysa (37), Teisa (17), Teesa (11), Tiessa (5), Tiesa (5), Tezza (5), Tyesa (5), Thesa (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.
Tessa 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 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 23 | #136 | #109 |
| Massachusetts | 38 | #152 | #124 |
| Alaska | 5 | #168 | #179 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #178 | #158 |
| New Jersey | 44 | #190 | #177 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #195 | #205 |
| Illinois | 52 | #197 | #137 |
| Utah | 23 | #211 | #99 |
| Delaware | 5 | #224 | #183 |
| Michigan | 40 | #227 | #121 |
| Nevada | 12 | #231 | #446 |
| Missouri | 27 | #237 | #182 |
| Kansas | 13 | #255 | #218 |
| Pennsylvania | 44 | #257 | #139 |
| New York | 64 | #266 | #247 |
| Minnesota | 20 | #283 | #191 |
| West Virginia | 6 | #304 | #410 |
| Colorado | 19 | #336 | #203 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #339 | #239 |
| Ohio | 33 | #345 | #191 |
| California | 94 | #349 | #266 |
| North Carolina | 32 | #352 | #221 |
| Texas | 98 | #357 | #324 |
| Washington | 20 | #367 | #213 |
| Indiana | 18 | #394 | #237 |
| Virginia | 20 | #411 | #225 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #419 | #151 |
| Maryland | 13 | #426 | #236 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #433 | — |
| Florida | 43 | #441 | #271 |
| South Carolina | 11 | #465 | #365 |
| Iowa | 7 | #486 | #147 |
| Georgia | 22 | #527 | #272 |
| Arizona | 13 | #545 | #304 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #564 | #234 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #646 | #366 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #655 | #266 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #672 | #658 |
| Alabama | 7 | #707 | #353 |
| Oregon | 5 | #723 | #210 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 978 | #311 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,036 | #303 | — | — |
| 2023 | 964 | #323 | — | — |
| 2022 | 973 | #332 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,118 | #287 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,135 | #281 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,268 | #260 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,329 | #245 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,296 | #245 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,395 | #230 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,560 | #208 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,527 | #221 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,324 | #244 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,366 | #233 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,391 | #229 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,427 | #221 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,569 | #207 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,660 | #203 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,753 | #190 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,354 | #251 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,224 | #269 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,184 | #276 | 8 | #8,838 |
| 2003 | 1,112 | #281 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,064 | #294 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,047 | #301 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,210 | #266 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,248 | #251 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,377 | #224 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,358 | #218 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,254 | #226 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,119 | #253 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,158 | #241 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,259 | #218 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,164 | #236 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,149 | #243 | — | — |
| 1990 | 955 | #290 | — | — |
| 1989 | 694 | #370 | — | — |
| 1988 | 588 | #408 | — | — |
| 1987 | 566 | #402 | — | — |
| 1986 | 619 | #376 | — | — |
| 1985 | 683 | #344 | — | — |
| 1984 | 777 | #307 | 5 | #7,228 |
| 1983 | 816 | #289 | — | — |
| 1982 | 650 | #359 | — | — |
| 1981 | 571 | #395 | — | — |
| 1980 | 361 | #526 | — | — |
| 1979 | 438 | #461 | — | — |
| 1978 | 441 | #452 | — | — |
| 1977 | 262 | #637 | — | — |
| 1976 | 341 | #523 | — | — |
| 1975 | 289 | #575 | — | — |
| 1974 | 285 | #565 | — | — |
| 1973 | 309 | #542 | — | — |
| 1972 | 209 | #697 | — | — |
| 1971 | 215 | #710 | — | — |
| 1970 | 180 | #786 | — | — |
| 1969 | 144 | #875 | — | — |
| 1968 | 115 | #971 | — | — |
| 1967 | 96 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1966 | 119 | #927 | — | — |
| 1965 | 108 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1964 | 140 | #880 | — | — |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 1961 | 47 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,947 | — | — |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,220 | — | — |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,473 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,272 | — | — |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,546 | — | — |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,693 | — | — |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,690 | — | — |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,789 | — | — |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,798 | — | — |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,524 | — | — |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 1947 | 32 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1945 | 36 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1944 | 31 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,467 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,882 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,301 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,208 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,810 | — | — |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,335 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,973 | — | — |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,409 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,675 | — | — |
| 1918 | 11 | #3,006 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,080 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,758 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,321 | — | — |
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).