Turkessa
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Turkessa has been given to 280 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1975, with 119 recorded.
Babies named Turkessa, 1987
1 in 601,000
Turkessa 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Turkessa?
Turkessa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1987
- 1 in 601,000
- 6 of 3,605,072 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 290,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1987
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 416,475 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Turkessa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1987 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 416,475 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Turkessa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Turkessas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Turkessa was born before 1976 — so the typical Turkessa is around 49 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 91.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 280
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 91.4% of all recorded uses (256).
Is Turkessa 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1975 (119)
- Years since peak
- 50
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.6% average annual change
Spellings of Turkessa
Turkessa is not the most common spelling — Tressa is, with 47.5% against Turkessa's 1.9%.
Where Turkessa is used
Across 1910–2025, Turkessa was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 425,268 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 100,000
- 2Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 3South Carolina1 in 100,000
- 4Alabama1 in —
- 5Florida1 in —
- 6Illinois1 in —
- 7North Carolina1 in —
- 8Tennessee1 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. Turkessa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Turkessa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Turkessa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Turkessa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.