Meaning and history
A short form of Theresa, Tess is also the name of the main character in Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891).
20062006: 385 births, rank #730
2007: 311 births, rank #892
2008: 322 births, rank #866
2009: 342 births, rank #824
2010: 338 births, rank #808
20112011: 283 births, rank #918
2012: 255 births, rank #988
2013: 251 births, rank #996
2014: 235 births, rank #1,089
2015: 229 births, rank #1,118
20162016: 217 births, rank #1,158
2017: 203 births, rank #1,198
2018: 176 births, rank #1,292
2019: 158 births, rank #1,415
2020: 175 births, rank #1,276
20212021: 142 births, rank #1,491
2022: 107 births, rank #1,885
2023: 117 births, rank #1,750
2024: 115 births, rank #1,753
20252025: 113 births, rank #1,777
Tess moved from #993 to #999 for girls between 2012 and 2013. Its highest annual birth count came in 1992, with 529 births.