Tesa
Tesa was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,382 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,330 Americans named Tesa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 27 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tesa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tesa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,451, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1992, the peak
Tesa peaked in 1992, when 47 girls were given it, #2,642 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,451 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,381 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,344 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,679 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,899 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,204 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,797 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,336 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 8 | #13,041 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,356 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | #6,824 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,178 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,337 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,779 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,664 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,678 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,465 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,192 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,221 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,107 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,794 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,771 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,307 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,487 | 19.8 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,292 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,707 | 26.2 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,143 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,222 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,760 | 24.3 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,642 | 25.5 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,833 | 22.4 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,215 | 12.6 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,466 | 16.3 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,872 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,612 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,945 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,411 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,724 | 20.2 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,272 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,248 | 15.9 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,062 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,860 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,925 | 18.7 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,735 | 20.2 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,659 | 20.9 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,330 | 24.6 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,452 | 22.6 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,679 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,449 | 21.3 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,168 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,360 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,560 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,094 | 11.9 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,964 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,065 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,935 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,818 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,228 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,864 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,505 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,453 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,650 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,993 | 4.0 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,797 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tesa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tesa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tesa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tesa, and how old are they?
1,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,382 Americans ever recorded as Tesa. The median Tesa alive today is 36 years old; half are between 27 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,207 people named Tesa (1,204 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,325 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 63 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 375 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 482 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 349 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 58 |
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).
How common is the spelling Tesa?
Tesa is a less common spelling of Tessa: SSA has recorded 1,382 Tesa and 55,939 Tessa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 60,024 babies since 1880, Tesa is the second most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 983 babies recorded by SSA was a Tesa (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Tesa
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 Tesa and names like it
- Compare Tesa and TessaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTesa peaked in 1992.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tesa since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Tesa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tesa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.