Tessie
Tessie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 311th, in 1917.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1917393 births
- Best rank
- #311in 1917
- Since 1880
- 9,973people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,973 girls have been named Tessie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 393 births.
The name has all but left use: 11 births in 2024, against 393 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1910s alone account for 26%. It has spent 56 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tessie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 247 | |
| 1890s | 595 | |
| 1900s | 877 | |
| 1910s | 2,583 | |
| 1920s | 2,083 | |
| 1930s | 667 | |
| 1940s | 419 | |
| 1950s | 402 | |
| 1960s | 604 | |
| 1970s | 548 | |
| 1980s | 408 | |
| 1990s | 232 | |
| 2000s | 143 | |
| 2010s | 118 | |
| 2020s | 47 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Tessie was the 311th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Tessie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Edythepeak 1918
- Albinapeak 1917
- Hortensepeak 1919
- Herminapeak 1916
- Inezpeak 1920
- Estellepeak 1915
- Elmapeak 1918
- Violapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.