Tessa Forename
13,484th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 72,474 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands
Tessa Forename Definition:
A Greek name, meaning: The fourth.
Tessa Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 100% | 20,879 | 1:810 | 182 |
| United States | 100% | 18,538 | 1:19,556 | 1,610 |
| England | 100% | 8,661 | 1:6,420 | 608 |
| South Africa | 100% | 4,421 | 1:12,335 | 1,974 |
| Australia | - | 2,131 | 1:6,409 | 754 |
| Canada | 100% | 2,009 | 1:16,492 | 1,600 |
| Belgium | 100% | 1,899 | 1:6,051 | 833 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 1,857 | 1:138,914 | 14,604 |
| Philippines | 99% | 1,645 | 1:64,443 | 4,250 |
| New Zealand | - | 1,554 | 1:2,919 | 506 |
| Germany | 100% | 968 | 1:99,874 | 2,121 |
| Thailand | 100% | 623 | 1:112,465 | 9,099 |
| Iraq | 91% | 541 | 1:64,728 | 1,970 |
| Ghana | - | 393 | 1:68,667 | 3,308 |
| Finland | 100% | 391 | 1:14,023 | 934 |
| Guyana | 100% | 390 | 1:1,957 | 374 |
| France | 100% | 355 | 1:187,240 | 3,133 |
| Wales | 100% | 331 | 1:9,348 | 789 |
| Malawi | 100% | 317 | 1:53,982 | 3,553 |
| Scotland | 100% | 313 | 1:17,094 | 906 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 300 | 1:4,538 | 795 |
| Brazil | 100% | 207 | 1:1,034,957 | 26,889 |
| India | 100% | 192 | 1:6,327,489 | 223,121 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 187 | 1:951 | 148 |
| Jamaica | - | 172 | 1:16,763 | 1,522 |
| Italy | 99% | 171 | 1:357,088 | 4,231 |
| Spain | 100% | 169 | 1:275,325 | 4,768 |
| Denmark | - | 168 | 1:33,628 | 1,528 |
| Gabon | 100% | 160 | 1:11,771 | 1,796 |
| Namibia | - | 159 | 1:15,121 | 1,543 |
| Portugal | - | 129 | 1:80,704 | 2,343 |
| Swaziland | - | 103 | 1:12,623 | 1,554 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 93 | 1:88,317 | 2,951 |
| Ireland | 100% | 90 | 1:51,595 | 1,669 |
| Suriname | 100% | 82 | 1:6,742 | 1,371 |
| Kenya | - | 80 | 1:578,839 | 15,150 |
| Grenada | 100% | 79 | 1:1,369 | 281 |
| Zimbabwe | 95% | 75 | 1:205,651 | 12,270 |
| Haiti | 100% | 70 | 1:153,242 | 7,528 |
| Singapore | 100% | 67 | 1:93,837 | 7,326 |
| Qatar | 100% | 66 | 1:35,903 | 4,803 |
| Russia | 100% | 63 | 1:2,289,424 | 14,741 |
| Malta | - | 57 | 1:7,533 | 851 |
| Malaysia | 97% | 54 | 1:563,888 | 23,725 |
| Cameroon | 79% | 53 | 1:407,745 | 14,031 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 50 | 1:1,988 | 431 |
| Sweden | 100% | 50 | 1:197,158 | 6,891 |
| Mexico | 100% | 47 | 1:2,641,371 | 13,897 |
| China | - | 45 | 1:30,356,795 | 61,058 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 45 | 1:1,219 | 275 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 43 | 1:166,325 | 11,451 |
| Barbados | - | 42 | 1:6,900 | 892 |
| Hong Kong | - | 37 | 1:209,533 | 3,304 |
| Romania | - | 37 | 1:541,945 | 15,266 |
| Honduras | 100% | 35 | 1:251,928 | 5,264 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 32 | 1:2,896 | 621 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 30 | 1:2,043 | 460 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 29 | 1:6,122,909 | 83,805 |
| Belize | 100% | 28 | 1:12,654 | 1,726 |
| Kuwait | - | 28 | 1:135,188 | 8,745 |
| Botswana | - | 26 | 1:84,017 | 7,219 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 25 | 1:417,251 | 13,014 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 25 | 1:3,902,405 | 10,287 |
| Croatia | 100% | 24 | 1:175,712 | 3,294 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 23 | 1:37,873 | 1,806 |
| Gibraltar | - | 23 | 1:1,484 | 297 |
| Papua New Guinea | 94% | 23 | 1:354,448 | 28,044 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 22 | 1:83,779 | 1,413 |
| Norway | 100% | 22 | 1:233,288 | 5,551 |
| Czechia | 100% | 19 | 1:560,851 | 2,621 |
| Greece | 100% | 18 | 1:607,475 | 7,461 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 18 | 1:136,598 | 3,266 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 17 | 1:6,564 | 1,053 |
| Guernsey | - | 16 | 1:3,958 | 490 |
| Estonia | 100% | 14 | 1:93,956 | 4,008 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 14 | 1:92,699 | 3,290 |
| South Korea | - | 13 | 1:426,494 | 11,600 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 13 | 1:8,442 | 1,163 |
| Zambia | - | 13 | 1:1,219,600 | 16,711 |
| Bermuda | - | 11 | 1:5,893 | 898 |
| Chile | 82% | 11 | 1:1,600,655 | 12,027 |
| Israel | 100% | 11 | 1:763,902 | 12,174 |
| Ecuador | - | 10 | 1:1,772,692 | 10,604 |
| Jersey | 100% | 10 | 1:9,998 | 868 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 10 | 1:2,376,968 | 55,480 |
| Bahrain | - | 9 | 1:149,853 | 3,890 |
| Egypt | 100% | 9 | 1:10,211,216 | 21,716 |
| Samoa | - | 9 | 1:21,688 | 450 |
| Tunisia | - | 9 | 1:75,211 | 3,284 |
| Vanuatu | - | 9 | 1:29,088 | 709 |
| Austria | 100% | 8 | 1:1,064,275 | 7,469 |
| Niger | 100% | 8 | 1:2,397,999 | 27,433 |
| Guam | - | 7 | 1:22,949 | 2,164 |
| Peru | 100% | 7 | 1:4,541,636 | 34,195 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 7 | 1:4,314,556 | 60,709 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 6 | 1:32,392,947 | 130,865 |
| Vietnam | - | 6 | 1:15,437,186 | 4,625 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 5 | 1:2,651 | 523 |
| Argentina | 67% | 5 | 1:8,554,649 | 17,386 |
| Belarus | 100% | 5 | 1:1,896,477 | 8,406 |
| Japan | - | 5 | 1:25,597,211 | 50,433 |
| Uganda | 100% | 5 | 1:8,191,384 | 58,906 |
| Bangladesh | - | 4 | 1:39,865,342 | 24,379 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 4 | 1:18,456,901 | 95,891 |
| Poland | 100% | 4 | 1:9,506,778 | 5,827 |
| Turkey | 100% | 4 | 1:19,450,427 | 45,600 |
| Algeria | - | 3 | 1:12,725,573 | 18,455 |
| Iceland | - | 3 | 1:122,006 | 4,203 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 3 | 1:188,016 | 3,003 |
| Andorra | - | 2 | 1:41,444 | 944 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 2 | 1:8,136,665 | 51,498 |
| Congo | 100% | 2 | 1:2,504,602 | 31,783 |
| Dominica | - | 2 | 1:37,736 | 863 |
| Guatemala | - | 2 | 1:8,054,214 | 10,362 |
| Macau | - | 2 | 1:304,104 | 1,640 |
| Nepal | - | 2 | 1:14,243,676 | 86,069 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 2 | 1:3,009,168 | 24,322 |
| Slovakia | - | 2 | 1:2,655,032 | 6,915 |
| Tanzania | - | 2 | 1:26,394,160 | 73,301 |
| Afghanistan | - | 1 | 1:32,623,516 | 66,536 |
| Albania | 100% | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Benin | - | 1 | 1:10,575,843 | 90,010 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 1 | 1:18,379,469 | 100,219 |
| Colombia | - | 1 | 1:47,778,926 | 95,497 |
| Costa Rica | - | 1 | 1:4,767,948 | 27,206 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| El Salvador | - | 1 | 1:6,341,786 | 16,428 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 1 | 1:3,142 | 392 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Georgia | - | 1 | 1:3,738,466 | 29,095 |
| Hungary | 100% | 1 | 1:9,791,771 | 6,528 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 1 | 1:23,075,933 | 135,227 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Liberia | 100% | 1 | 1:4,412,061 | 36,340 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Panama | - | 1 | 1:3,906,557 | 40,800 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 1 | 1:5,829 | 386 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Sudan | - | 1 | 1:37,806,975 | 10,689 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
| Uruguay | - | 1 | 1:3,427,637 | 13,958 |
The alternate forms: Téssa (1) are calculated separately.
Tessa (3,236) may also be a surname.
Tessa Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A Greek name, meaning: The fourth.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Tessa Forename Popularity
Tessa Demographics
Tessa Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 2,575 (2014)
United States
Average
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Tessa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tessa in the Russian language | ||
| Тесса | tessa | - |
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