first name
TESSA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 47,455 people named Tessa, 81.7% reported their origin as White, 7.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.2% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Tessa peaked in 2007, when 1,753 babies got the name.
At least 55,939 babies have been given the name since 1891. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Tessa by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #483. The largest share of babies named Tessa, 38.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Tessa is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tessa has been most common in Utah (2.9×), South Dakota (2.4×), and Alaska (2.2×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.29×).
53,495 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tessa, most common first.
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