Tanessa
Tanessa was last recorded in 2015, when 7 babies were given it; 382 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tanessa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tanessa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,351, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1987, the peak
Tanessa peaked in 1987, when 23 girls were given it, #3,847 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #14,351 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,071 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,727 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,312 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,847 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,235 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,645 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,466 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,839 | 3.3 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,720 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 8 | #10,454 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,470 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,044 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,652 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 13 | #7,018 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,534 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 19 | #5,037 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,515 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,063 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,847 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,938 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 12 | #6,004 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,717 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,790 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,124 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,217 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,278 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,765 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,900 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,181 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,867 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,410 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,807 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,155 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,428 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tanessa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tanessa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tanessa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tanessa, and how old are they?
An estimated 370 Americans named Tanessa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 31 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 344 people named Tanessa (342 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 373 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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 spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,098 babies since 1880, Tanessa is the second most given (18% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tanessa
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 Tanessa and names like it
- Compare Tanessa and TanasiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTanessa peaked in 1987.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Tanessa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tanessa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.