Tessy — girls' name
199 babies named Tessy in U.S. Social Security records since 1960, with the highest year being 1968. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Tessy was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Tessy in 1968 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tessy
The Social Security Administration has registered 199 babies named Tessy between 1960 and 2022, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tessy currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1968, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tessy performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 81 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Tessy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tessy in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tessy 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 199 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.
Tessy at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tessy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1960
- Peak year (1968)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 63 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
199 total births across 63 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1968 with 13 births in a single year.
Tessy by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 81 births that decade — 41% of Tessy's all-time total
Tessy decade highlights
- Peak decade 81 births
- Runner-up 59 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Tessy's strongest decade
81 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Tessy by state
Where Tessy concentrates geographically — total births since 1960
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 2.5% |
5 of 199 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 2.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 2.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1960–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.