Meaning not yet researched.
Tessie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #311 in 1917.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #311 in 1917; #11,835 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tessie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,835 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1917, at #311.
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Tessie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #311 in 1917 · most girls in one year: 393 (1917).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Tessie, making it the 11,835th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,329 places from #9,506 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 11 girls named Tessie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #311, reached in 1917. That year also had the most girls given the name: 393. For comparison, it was #10,094 in 2015 and #1,493 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tessie in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 17 babies with the name. In all, 9,991 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 2,588 babies named Tessie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 99 US girls were named Tessie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tesia (1,081 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Teasia, Tessia and Tessy are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Teasia (706), Tessia (376), Tessy (199), Tessi (74), Tysie (18).
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 Tessie in the open dataset we use.
Tessie is listed as a nickname for Teresa, Theresa.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,835 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,506 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,090 | — | — |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,528 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,932 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,486 | — | — |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,685 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,764 | — | — |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,989 | — | — |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,644 | — | — |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,094 | — | — |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,961 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,884 | — | — |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,672 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,060 | — | — |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,248 | — | — |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,037 | — | — |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,079 | — | — |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,484 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,683 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,295 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,214 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,455 | — | — |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,368 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,955 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,121 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,681 | — | — |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,784 | — | — |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,402 | — | — |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,756 | — | — |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,507 | — | — |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,785 | — | — |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,578 | — | — |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,672 | — | — |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,362 | — | — |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,901 | — | — |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,241 | — | — |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,157 | — | — |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,775 | — | — |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,901 | — | — |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,542 | — | — |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,947 | — | — |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,184 | — | — |
| 1979 | 52 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,623 | — | — |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,855 | — | — |
| 1976 | 51 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,169 | — | — |
| 1973 | 65 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1972 | 66 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1971 | 73 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1970 | 73 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 1969 | 63 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 1968 | 77 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1967 | 68 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1966 | 49 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 1965 | 64 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1964 | 69 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1961 | 57 | #1,497 | — | — |
| 1960 | 61 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1959 | 48 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1958 | 46 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 1955 | 46 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 1954 | 40 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 1953 | 27 | #2,013 | — | — |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 1949 | 45 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 1948 | 45 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1947 | 53 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 1945 | 37 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1944 | 38 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1943 | 42 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1942 | 43 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1940 | 41 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1939 | 45 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1938 | 40 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1937 | 43 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1936 | 48 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1935 | 70 | #821 | — | — |
| 1934 | 71 | #803 | — | — |
| 1933 | 78 | #750 | — | — |
| 1932 | 94 | #702 | — | — |
| 1931 | 76 | #773 | — | — |
| 1930 | 102 | #684 | — | — |
| 1929 | 132 | #596 | — | — |
| 1928 | 128 | #624 | — | — |
| 1927 | 149 | #580 | — | — |
| 1926 | 190 | #508 | — | — |
| 1925 | 191 | #509 | — | — |
| 1924 | 201 | #494 | — | — |
| 1923 | 235 | #444 | — | — |
| 1922 | 251 | #416 | 5 | #4,886 |
| 1921 | 293 | #394 | — | — |
| 1920 | 313 | #372 | — | — |
| 1919 | 357 | #336 | — | — |
| 1918 | 360 | #343 | 5 | #4,738 |
| 1917 | 393 | #311 | — | — |
| 1916 | 340 | #331 | — | — |
| 1915 | 292 | #346 | — | — |
| 1914 | 230 | #346 | — | — |
| 1913 | 187 | #354 | — | — |
| 1912 | 170 | #351 | — | — |
| 1911 | 136 | #341 | — | — |
| 1910 | 118 | #363 | — | — |
| 1909 | 100 | #367 | — | — |
| 1908 | 117 | #328 | — | — |
| 1907 | 94 | #365 | — | — |
| 1906 | 88 | #358 | — | — |
| 1905 | 85 | #371 | — | — |
| 1904 | 101 | #326 | — | — |
| 1903 | 68 | #387 | — | — |
| 1902 | 63 | #394 | — | — |
| 1901 | 67 | #369 | — | — |
| 1900 | 94 | #344 | — | — |
| 1899 | 66 | #360 | — | — |
| 1898 | 66 | #384 | — | — |
| 1897 | 60 | #375 | — | — |
| 1896 | 68 | #354 | — | — |
| 1895 | 61 | #362 | — | — |
| 1894 | 55 | #380 | — | — |
| 1893 | 61 | #349 | — | — |
| 1892 | 54 | #364 | — | — |
| 1891 | 57 | #337 | — | — |
| 1890 | 47 | #368 | — | — |
| 1889 | 45 | #360 | — | — |
| 1888 | 44 | #365 | — | — |
| 1887 | 32 | #389 | — | — |
| 1886 | 24 | #449 | — | — |
| 1885 | 19 | #498 | — | — |
| 1884 | 26 | #397 | — | — |
| 1883 | 9 | #689 | — | — |
| 1882 | 19 | #430 | — | — |
| 1881 | 12 | #502 | — | — |
| 1880 | 17 | #419 | — | — |
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).