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Tessah

Gender
Girl
Say it
TESS-a
Origin
Greek

Tessah is a girls' name of Greek origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Tessah mean?

Greek: spelling of Tessa; pet form of Teresa

A pet form of Teresa that is often given as a full name in its own right.

Meaning borrowed from Tessa. More on Wiktionary.

Is Tessah a girl's or a boy's name?

Tessah is a girls' name.

How popular is Tessah in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.

Half of all the girls named Tessah in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.

1990Busiest: 20 in 20072021
Tessah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20216#13,459
20200–
20190–
20186#13,788
20175#15,898
20168#11,776
20159#10,861
201411#9,512
201310#10,230
201210#10,424
20116#14,816
201010#10,446
20098#12,423
20089#11,594
200720#6,548
200611#9,897
200513#8,325
20049#10,684
200310#9,666
20027#12,181
20018#11,013
200014#7,152
199911#8,216
199813#7,099
199711#7,737
19965#13,511
199511#7,509
199410#8,116
19930–
19920–
19917#10,263
19909#8,495

Nicknames for Tessah

Names like Tessah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Tessah

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Tessah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tessah, updated 20 October 2026.