Nessa
- #2,719 for girls in 2025, 63 births
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 83 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,368since 1935
Nessa over time
Rank among girls' names. Nessa has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,719 | 63 |
| 2024 | #2,857 | 58 |
| 2023 | #3,047 | 54 |
| 2022 | #3,073 | 53 |
| 2021 | #2,848 | 59 |
| 2020 | #3,015 | 53 |
| 2019 | #3,552 | 43 |
| 2018 | #2,711 | 63 |
| 2017 | #2,432 | 74 |
| 2016 | #2,287 | 83 |
| 2015 | #3,299 | 49 |
| 2014 | #4,455 | 32 |
| 2013 | #4,422 | 32 |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 |
| 2011 | #3,999 | 37 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 |
| 2009 | #4,677 | 31 |
| 2008 | #5,142 | 28 |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 |
| 2005 | #4,373 | 31 |
| 2004 | #5,062 | 25 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 |
| 1994 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #4,474 | 18 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 |
| 1980 | #4,743 | 15 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
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| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
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| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
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| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
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| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nessa! It came in at #4,204, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1935–1947, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Nessa is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#2,075 · 1 in 15,666
- Texas#2,386 · 1 in 20,068
- California#2,767 · 1 in 26,954
Best ever in a state: #743 in Massachusetts, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #2,075 | 5 | 1 in 15,666 |
| Texas | #2,386 | 8 | 1 in 20,068 |
| California | #2,767 | 6 | 1 in 26,954 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Nessa
- 138 spots since 2024 (#2,857 → #2,719)
- 296 spots since 2020 (#3,015 → #2,719)
- 580 spots since 2015 (#3,299 → #2,719)
- Debuted 1935
- Peaked 2016 at #2,287 (83 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,350 girls born in 2016 were named Nessa (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,512 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.5% of all girls named Nessa (458) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,204 (1935) | #4,204 |
| 1940s | 11 | #4,349 (1940) | #4,500 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 12 | #5,891 (1963) | #5,950 |
| 1970s | 73 | #4,363 (1976) | #6,756 |
| 1980s | 105 | #4,474 (1987) | #6,920 |
| 1990s | 139 | #5,419 (1993) | #6,820 |
| 2000s | 225 | #4,373 (2005) | #5,978 |
| 2010s | 458 | #2,287 (2016) | #3,891 |
| 2020s | 340 | #2,719 (2025) | #2,927 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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