US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE TESS

Same rise and fall as Tess, around the same years.

WHERE TESS IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Tess ranked highest in Massachusetts (#1,238) and lowest in Texas (#3,657). 43 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Tess name popularity

Tess has been given to 14,770 babies in the United States since 1889.

It peaked in 1992, when 529 babies got the name, and its best rank was #895 in 1992.

In 2025, 113 babies were named Tess (#3,252 in the country), 79% below the peak. That is down 51% from 2015.

Almost every Tess is a girl.

An estimated 14K people named Tess are alive in the US today, with a median age of 26.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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