Tessa

Diminutive of Theresa

"to reap, to gather"

Tessa Origin and Meaning

Variation of Tess

Tessa Rank in US Top 1000

# 303 in the US

Tessa Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 106 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Tessa

• 303 US 2024
• 106 Nameberry 2025
• 172 Canada 2024
• 290 Future 2028
• 720 England 2024
• 112 Germany 2016
• 97 Netherlands 2020

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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

The name 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