Contessa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Contessa

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,040 babies named Contessa between 1957 and 2023, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Contessa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 130 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Contessa performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 632 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Contessa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 78 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Contessa in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Contessa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,040 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.