Tessie

Where Tessie comes from

From Tess + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Tessie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among girls — 17 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1917
    Peak, #310
    393 babies named Tessie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1925
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #507.
  4. 1975
    Tessie Santiago born
    American actress
  5. 1992
    Tessie Savelkouls born
    Dutch judoka
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Teresita and Teresa, from Spanish.
Namesakes
  • Tessie Savelkouls · Dutch judoka, born 1992
  • Tessie Santiago · American actress, born 1975
  • Tessie Lambourne · Kiribati politician, born 1971
  • Tessie O'Shea · actress, singer, 1913–1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.