Contessa
Contessa was last recorded in 2023, when 13 babies were given it; 2,040 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,960 Americans named Contessa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 26 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Contessa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Contessa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,149, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
130 babies in 1983, the peak
Contessa peaked in 1983, when 130 girls were given it, #1,067 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 13 | #8,149 | 8.1 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,096 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,814 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,073 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,186 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,013 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,973 | 9.6 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,044 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,248 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,170 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 25 | #5,432 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,193 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,415 | 18.6 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,424 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,200 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,065 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,085 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,505 | 16.2 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,504 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,113 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,194 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,621 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,755 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,468 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,852 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,058 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,960 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,505 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,458 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,030 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,345 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,101 | 19.2 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,527 | 24.8 |
| 1989 | 61 | #2,051 | 33.1 |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,215 | 28.6 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,444 | 24.2 |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,390 | 24.5 |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,634 | 41.8 |
| 1984 | 83 | #1,400 | 49.3 |
| 1983 | 130 | #1,067 | 77.8 |
| 1982 | 69 | #1,656 | 40.7 |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,274 | 26.4 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,496 | 22.9 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,393 | 24.3 |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,243 | 26.8 |
| 1977 | 45 | #2,095 | 29.4 |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,702 | 38.9 |
| 1975 | 66 | #1,532 | 45.3 |
| 1974 | 56 | #1,649 | 38.2 |
| 1973 | 96 | #1,146 | 65.8 |
| 1972 | 46 | #1,836 | 30.2 |
| 1971 | 33 | #2,345 | 19.8 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,721 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,987 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,192 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,346 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,585 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,555 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,680 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,061 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,393 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,391 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,428 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,585 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,269 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Contessa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Contessa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Contessa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Contessa, and how old are they?
1,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,040 Americans ever recorded as Contessa. The median Contessa alive today is 41 years old; half are between 26 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,712 people named Contessa (1,707 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,956 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 47 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 556 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 794 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 439 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 127 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Contessa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Contessa and names like it
- Compare Contessa and SeemaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sContessa peaked in 1983.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Contessa since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Contessa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Contessa alive today were born 1981-1996.
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