Tessa

Diminutive of Theresa

"to reap, to gather"

Tessa Origin and Meaning

The name Tessa is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "to reap, to gather".

Tessa is one of those golden names that's been popular but not TOO popular for several decades now. Tessa has ranked in the Top 500 in the US since 1981 but has risen only once above Number 200.

Among baby girl names, Tessa's much more popular than either mother name Theresa or shorter form Tess. Today, many people may not even remember that Tessa originated as a short form of Theresa as it stands quite nicely on its own.

Tessa is far more popular and more durable than sister name Tess, which had a heyday in the 1990s but fell out of the Top 1000 in 2013.

Tessa Rank in US Top 1000

# 332 in the US

Tessa Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 260 on Nameberry

Tessa Popularity

• 332 US 2022
• 260 Nameberry 2024
• 290 Future 2028
• 653 England 2021
• 112 Germany 2016
• 97 Netherlands 2020
• 137 Canada 2022

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Famous People Named Tessa

• Tessa Lynne Thompson American actress
• Tessa De Loo pen name of Johanna Martina "Tineke" Duyvené de Wit, Dutch novelist
• Tessa Rumsey American poet
• Tessa Allen American actress
• Tessa Virtue Canadian Olympic ice dancer
• Tessa Grady American actress
• Tessa Bonhomme Canadian ice hockey player
• Tessa Jane Jowell English MP and Minister for the Olympics
• Tessa Jane Munt English MP
• Tessa Netting YouTuber and actress
• Chantal Sophia "Tessa" Dahl English novelist and actress; daughter of novelist Roald Dahl
• Tessa Ferrer (b. 1986) daughter of singer Debby Boone and actor Gabriel Ferrer
• Tessa Violet Williams YouTube vlogger and singer,songwriter
• Tessa Brooks American dancer and YouTuber

Tessa in Pop Culture

• Theresa "Tessa" Gray character in The Infernal Devices and Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
• Tessa O'Connell main character in The Bad Boy Series by Blair Holden
• Tessa Young main character in The After Series by Anna Todd
• Tessa Quayle main character in film "The Constant Gardener"
• Tessa Altman character on TV's "Suburgatory"
• Tessa Noël character on TV's "Highlander: The Series"
• Tessa "contadina," mistress to Tito Melema, in Romola (1862) by George Eliot
• Tessa "contadina" who marries Giuseppe Palmieri in the Gilbert and Sullivan opera The Gondoliers (1889)
• Tessa Reynolds main character in "Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall" by Wendy Mass
• Tessa Scott main character in "Before I Die" and film "Now is Good"
• Tessa character in the Red Earth video game series
• Teletha "Tessa" Testarossa character in anime/manga "Full Metal Panic"
• Tessa reaper on Supernatural
• Tessa main character in blog series "Dark Intensions" and "Dark Vows"
• Tessa character on Showtime's "Masters of Sex"
• Tessa Campanelli minor character on "Degrassi Junior High" and "Degrassi High", and major character in "Degrassi: School's Out!"
• Tessa Dickinson character from "100 Days of Sunlight" by Abbie Emmons
• Tessa Tom Holland’s dog