Contessa
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Contessa has been given to 2,040 babies in the U.S. since 1957. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1983, with 130 recorded.
Babies named Contessa, 2023
1 in 255,000
Contessa over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Contessa?
Contessa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 123,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,742 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Contessa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 176,742 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Contessa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Contessas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Contessa was born before 1985 — so the typical Contessa is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 31.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 25.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,040
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 31.0% of all recorded uses (632).
Is Contessa rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1983 (130)
- Years since peak
- 42
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.0% average annual change
Where Contessa is used
Across 1910–2025, Contessa was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 267,295 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 100,000
- 2Florida1 in 100,000
- 3Georgia1 in 100,000
- 4Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 5Texas1 in 100,000
- 6California1 in —
- 7Illinois1 in —
- 8Louisiana1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Contessa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Contessa around the world
Where Contessa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada1991–1991#2,397in 1991
- South Australia1966–1966#658in 1966
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Contessa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Contessa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Contessa
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Contessa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Contessa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.