Girl
Tess
Meaning
This name is in the birth records, but its history has not yet been added to the library. We add meanings only when they can be given with a source.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1990s
In the United States
- 14,171 babies given this name since 1889
- At its height in 1993, about 1 in 3,500 girls
- 175 babies in 2020
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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