Tessa — #303 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Tessa

The Social Security Administration has registered 54,936 babies named Tessa between 1891 and 2024, spanning 134 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tessa currently holds the #303 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 1,753 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tessa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 13,878 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Tessa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5,129 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Tessa in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tessa 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 54,936 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.