Girls' name · since 1990
Tessah
Tessah has 267 recorded births since 1990 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2007 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #16,975 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 267
- born since 1990
- 2000s
- peak decade
Tessah is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 267 have been recorded since 1990.
Tessah has 267 recorded births among girls since 1990, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1990 to 2021.
- #16,975 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 267 born since 1990
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Tessah ranks #16,975 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 267 born since 1990, peaking in the 2000s.
- #16,975 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 267
- born since 1990
- 2000s
- peak decade
Tessah's 267 recorded births place it above 76.52% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Tessah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Tessah's SSA record in two at 2006 and the more recent half accounts for 48% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 52%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1996, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2007 peak of 20, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Tessah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1990–2021
- Peak year (2007)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 32 years of records
Tessah by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (109 births, 41% of the file).
2000s was Tessah's strongest decade.
109 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 41% of all-time use.
Tessah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
77 births
- 2000s
2000s
109 births
- 2010s
2010s
75 births
- 2020s 6
2020s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 109 births (41% of all-time use).
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- Tessah's decade-level peak was the 2000s (109 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Tessah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2007)
Similar record span (~31 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1990–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Tessah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.