Katessa

Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Katessa has been given to 64 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 11 recorded.

Babies named Katessa, 1993

1 in 754,000

Katessa over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katessa: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Katessa means

Katessa is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Katessa is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Katessa is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 64 girls were recorded with the name Katessa between 1973 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1983; its best national rank was #5,986 in 1983.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Katessa?

Katessa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993: 1 in 754,000; 5 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only: 1 in 362,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 522,458 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Katessa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1993 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 522,458 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katessa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katessas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katessa was born before 1985 — so the typical Katessa is around 40 today.

Median birth year: 1985; About 40 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 68.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 64; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 68.8% of all recorded uses (44).

Is Katessa 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 (11)
Years since peak: 42; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 38.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,986; 1983

Spellings of Katessa

Katessa is not the most common spelling — Vanessa is, with 70.4% against Katessa's 0.02%.

Vanessa70.4%261,622
Tessa15.0%55,926
Karissa5.4%20,089
Janessa4.0%14,722
Latesha0.84%3,110
Alessa0.81%3,005
Anessa0.77%2,876
Kanesha0.47%1,752

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Katessa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,986; 1983
Peak year: 1983; 11 that year
First recorded: 1973
Last recorded: 1993
All-time count: 64
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Katessa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Katniss Katalea Katyana Katrece Kateena Katalyn Katanna Katiejo Aleissa Katurah Katsuko Kathlen Katalia Katrell Kataliyah Darissa Kateryna Katlynd Katelee Katanya Kataleah Katori Katiemae Kateleya

Sibling names for Katessa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Afton Tanesha Matthew Adriane Laquita Thomas Holli Venessa

For a brother

Jerrod Marques Jamaal Donnell Brenton Chauncey Leopoldo Whitney

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