Tessica

Girls' name

Blend of Tess and Jessica

Tessica has been given to 229 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1982, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Tessica, 2006

1 in 791,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tessica: meaning, origin, and history

Blend of Tess and Jessica

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tessica means

Tessica is a blend of Tess and Jessica.

Origin, language, and formation

Tessica is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tess and Jessica.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 229 girls were recorded with the name Tessica between 1970 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1982; its best national rank was #4,017 in 1982.

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.

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How common is Tessica?

Tessica had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006: 1 in 791,000; 5 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only: 1 in 380,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 548,442 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Tessica 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 2006 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 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tessica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tessicas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tessica was born before 1983 — so the typical Tessica is around 42 today.

Median birth year: 1983; About 42 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 53.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 61.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 229; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 53.7% of all recorded uses (123).

Is Tessica 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 1982 (20)
Years since peak: 43; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 35.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,017; 1982

Spellings of Tessica

Tessica is not the most common spelling — Jessica is, with 92.0% against Tessica's 0.02%.

Jessica92.0%1,050,729
Tessa4.9%55,926
Tessie0.87%9,981
Jessika0.52%5,969
Jesica0.41%4,720
Yessica0.35%3,956
Yesica0.21%2,411
Jesseca0.13%1,498

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.

Tessica 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: #4,017; 1982
Peak year: 1982; 20 that year
First recorded: 1970
Last recorded: 2006
All-time count: 229
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Tessica

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

Tesneem Tessia Alyrica Tessla Tessah Federica Tesslyn Jassica Milica Sharica Shemica Gessica Teshara Teshia Zuleica Tessy Deerica Vernica Adonica Ronnica Maurica Annica Shenica Cherica

Sibling names for Tessica

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

Eboni Lyndsay Shamika Afton Christopher Kandi Matthew Fawn

For a brother

Jamaal Donnell Jerrod Chauncey Leopoldo Jerod Dusty Marques

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