Tess
9
Babies in 2024
-82%
10-year change
2009
Peak · 95
-44%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Tess
Tess peaked among UK girls' names in the late 2000s (95 babies in 2009) and has remained in active use — 9 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Tess reached its peak in 2009, when 95 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #438 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 9 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,486 girls have been officially registered with the name Tess in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 346 girls were registered with the name, starting from 51 in 2014 and ending at 9 in 2024.