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Tessy

Girls' name

Tess with the suffix -y

Tessy has been given to 199 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 1968, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Tessy, 2022

1 in 677,000

Tessy over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tessy: meaning, origin, and history

Tess with the suffix -y

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tessy means

Tessy is formed from Tess with the suffix -y.

Origin, language, and formation

Tessy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tess, Theresa and Teresa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 199 girls were recorded with the name Tessy between 1960 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1968; its best national rank was #3,980 in 1968.

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 Tessy?

Tessy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tessy 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tessy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tessys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tessy was born before 1975 — so the typical Tessy is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
199
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (81).

Is Tessy 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1968 (13)
Years since peak
57
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,980
1968

Spellings of Tessy

Tessy is not the most common spelling — Terry is, with 30.4% against Tessy's 0.06%.

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.

Where Tessy is used

Across 1910–2025, Tessy was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Tessy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tessy around the world

Where Tessy 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.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • France
    1980–2025
    #5,130
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Tessy 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
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Best rank ever
#3,980
1968
Peak year
1968
13 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
199
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tessy

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

TessiaBassyBessyLissyTesslaTesneemTessiTessahTesniRossyTeshiaKissyTessicaZissyTesiaNissyPessyCissyTressyTeshaTeslynDaissyJessyTesslyn

Sibling names for Tessy

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

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