Tessia
Tessia was given to 5 girls in 2025, #17,034 among girls’ names; 376 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tessia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tessia?
#17,034 among girls’ names, 2025
Tessia entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #17,034 in 2025.
17 babies in 1991, the peak
Tessia peaked in 1991, when 17 girls were given it, #5,638 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,034 | 3.1 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,805 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,109 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,255 | 3.7 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,957 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,850 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,674 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,611 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,022 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,961 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #17,408 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,292 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,690 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,747 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,091 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,436 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,626 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,232 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,474 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,638 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,440 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,920 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,071 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,306 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,791 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,917 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,254 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,261 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,425 | 5.3 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,225 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,656 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,196 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,072 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,908 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,661 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,337 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,961 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,584 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,096 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,735 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,526 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,443 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,706 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tessia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tessia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tessia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tessia, and how old are they?
An estimated 363 Americans named Tessia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 28 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 361 people named Tessia (358 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 362 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 69,941 babies since 1880, Tessia is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 991 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
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 Tessia
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 Tessia and names like it
- Compare Tessia and TessaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTessia peaked in 1991.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Tessia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tessia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.