Tesa
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293
- Peak · girls
- 1976 · 36 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,382since 1956
Tesa over time
Rank among girls' names. Tesa 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 |
| 2011 | #6,564 | 19 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 |
| 2003 | #5,092 | 24 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 |
| 1999 | #3,245 | 39 |
| 1998 | #3,426 | 35 |
| 1997 | #3,224 | 36 |
| 1996 | #2,672 | 46 |
| 1995 | #3,087 | 37 |
| 1994 | #3,168 | 36 |
| 1993 | #2,725 | 44 |
| 1992 | #2,612 | 47 |
| 1991 | #2,790 | 42 |
| 1990 | #4,120 | 24 |
| 1989 | #3,402 | 30 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #3,524 | 25 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 |
| 1985 | #3,328 | 26 |
| 1984 | #2,677 | 34 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 |
| 1982 | #3,172 | 27 |
| 1981 | #2,986 | 29 |
| 1980 | #2,800 | 32 |
| 1979 | #2,860 | 30 |
| 1978 | #2,680 | 31 |
| 1977 | #2,606 | 32 |
| 1976 | #2,292 | 36 |
| 1975 | #2,411 | 33 |
| 1974 | #2,616 | 28 |
| 1973 | #2,405 | 31 |
| 1972 | #3,062 | 21 |
| 1971 | #3,266 | 20 |
| 1970 | #3,435 | 18 |
| 1969 | #3,012 | 20 |
| 1968 | #2,874 | 20 |
| 1967 | #2,963 | 18 |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 |
| 1965 | #2,744 | 20 |
| 1964 | #3,108 | 17 |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 |
| 1961 | #3,318 | 15 |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 |
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| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tesa! It came in at #4,467, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1958, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Tesa is popular in 1999
No state had 5 or more girls named Tesa in 1999, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Tesa
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1976 at #2,292 (36 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 38,109 girls born in 1996 were named Tesa (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 324,038 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,292 in 1976, was only 1 in 40,697 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.9% of all girls named Tesa (386) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 16 | #4,467 (1956) | #4,546 |
| 1960s | 148 | #2,744 (1965) | #3,573 |
| 1970s | 280 | #2,292 (1976) | #2,763 |
| 1980s | 251 | #2,677 (1984) | #3,632 |
| 1990s | 386 | #2,612 (1992) | #3,107 |
| 2000s | 203 | #4,567 (2007) | #6,257 |
| 2010s | 81 | #6,564 (2011) | #12,019 |
| 2020s | 17 | #12,206 (2021) | #14,231 |
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.
Tesa in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 45,483 of them was named Tesa, which outranked 80.9% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,188Tai40
- #3,188Xitlali40
- #3,188Yelitza40
- #3,245Tesa39
- #3,245Adreana39
- #3,245Adriane39
- #3,245Aishah39
- #3,313Adelle38
- #3,313Aleia38
- #3,313Amrita38
Tied with 67 names at #3,245; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.