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How popular is the name Tessie?

Births per year, rank history and how many Tessies are alive today.

Tessie (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 4867th in 2025 and given to 4 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2015, when 6 babies were given the name, the 3615th most popular that year. Tessie is one spelling of a name also recorded as Tessy; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Tessie you are most likely to meet is around 11 years old. Half of all Tessies born in England and Wales are between 7 and 21, and there are at least 82 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Tessie - on average, only one in every 3,842 such rooms contains a Tessie.

How many babies are named Tessie each year?

Includes all spellings: Tessie, Tessy. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

024620202005: 32010: 32014: 32015: 62016: 62018: 32019: 42020: 32021: 52025: 4actual

Where does the Tessie spelling rank?

1101001,00010,00020202005: ranked 4,7982014: ranked 5,6912015: ranked 3,6152016: ranked 3,6092018: ranked 5,6662019: ranked 4,6862020: ranked 5,4932021: ranked 3,9612025: ranked 4,867

Where does the Tessy spelling rank?

1101001,00010,0002010: ranked 5,707

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.

Chart: babies named Tessie per year in England and Wales, 2005 to 2025, peaking at about 6 in 2015
Tessie: births per year in England and Wales, 2005-2025. Free to share with a link back.

Common questions

When was the name Tessie most popular?

Tessie peaked in 2015, when 6 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.

How many people are called Tessie?

At least 82 people named Tessie in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.

How old is the typical Tessie?

Most living Tessies are between 7 and 21; the most common age is about 11.

Is Tessie becoming more or less popular?

Broadly steady in recent years.






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