# Tessie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tessie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 9,991 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10 / 9,981 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 37, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 12,060 |
| 2012 | 12 | 9,672 |
| 2013 | 9 | 11,884 |
| 2014 | 18 | 6,961 |
| 2015 | 11 | 10,094 |
| 2016 | 19 | 6,644 |
| 2017 | 7 | 13,989 |
| 2018 | 11 | 9,764 |
| 2019 | 7 | 13,685 |
| 2020 | 11 | 9,486 |
| 2021 | 12 | 8,932 |
| 2022 | 5 | 17,528 |
| 2023 | 8 | 12,090 |
| 2024 | 11 | 9,506 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,835 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 5 | 4,738 |
| 1922 | 5 | 4,886 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4,686 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,961 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

## People named Tessie

- Tessie Savelkouls, Dutch judoka
- Tessie Santiago, American actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.