Is Tessa a boy or girl name?

Tessa is primarily a girl name in U.S. records: about 100% of recorded births are female.

What is the average age of someone named Tessa?

The average Tessa alive today is an estimated 24 years old. People named Tessa were most often born around 2007.

When was the name Tessa most popular?

Tessa peaked in 2007 with 1,753 recorded births in the United States.

What vibe does the name Tessa have?

In one report's words: compact, collegiate, perky. Tessa ranks #1027 among all U.S. first names since 1880.

Tessa — Name Meaning, Age & Vibe | Understand Your Name

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Origin & Meaning

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Originated as a short form of Theresa, rooted in the Greek word for harvest. Thomas Hardy gave the single-syllable Tess literary weight in 1891. American parents favored this two-syllable version starting in the late twentieth century.

Also answers toTess, Tessie

Fig. 1 — Births per annum, 1891–2025

SSA Data

1891 peak: 1,753 souls, A.D. 2007 2025

2025: 978 born, falling ↘

Estimated Age

24 yrs

Most Tessas were born around 2007 — remembers Vine, barely.

Peak Reign

2007

№190 that year

Generation

Gen Z, 39%

then Gen Alpha 29% · Millennial 25%

Rarity

Top 2000 all-time

≈56K ever born · now falling

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Tessa grew up with

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the family iPad·Minecraft YouTubers·slime tutorials

Generation Distribution — Living Tessas

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Gen X 7%Millennial 25%Gen Z 39%Gen Alpha 29%

Data vs. Humans

What the data says

SSA Data

SSA: Tessa peaked in 2007.

Estimated average age: 24.

What people think

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Fig. 2 — Style Coordinates

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Vintage Modern

Formal Casual

Soft Strong

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First Impressions

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Reads as a name that grew up in the suburbs during the iPod era. It carries none of Theresa's heavy lace or Victorian parlor weight. The name tends to be pictured with an iced coffee and an organized planner. It manages to sound energetic without being loud.

Field Notes

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Field Note 01

A typical Tessa is twenty-four, placing the bulk of the cohort squarely in college graduations and first apartments.

Field Note 02

Over ninety percent of living bearers belong to the Millennial, Gen Z, or Gen Alpha generations.

Field Note 03

The name reached its high-water mark in 2007, when about two thousand babies received it in a single year.

Field Note 04

It never cracked the national top one hundred, which spares its owners from ever having had to go by Tessa B. in homeroom.

Notable Tessas

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Tessa Thompsonactor, b. 1983

Tessa VirtueOlympic ice dancer, b. 1989

Adjacent Names

Gemma · Chloe · Piper · Sienna · Phoebe · Maya

Ephemera — If Tessa were a…

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City

Boulder, Colorado

Artifact

A spiral-bound day planner with color-coded highlighters

Job

Public relations coordinator

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