Tessa
53
Babies in 2024
-23%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 78
-4%
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 Tessa
Tessa peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (78 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 53 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Tessa reached its peak in 1996, when 78 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #410 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 53 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,728 girls have been officially registered with the name Tessa in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 649 girls were registered with the name, starting from 69 in 2014 and ending at 53 in 2024.