Nessa — #2852 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Nessa

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,304 babies named Nessa between 1935 and 2024, spanning 90 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nessa currently holds the #2852 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 83 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nessa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 457 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Nessa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 90 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Nessa in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nessa 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 1,304 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.