Tessi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tessi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: redução popular de Tesser, tecelão, ou de Contessi.
- FIFinland1 in 328K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 541K
- ATAustria≈1 in 691K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 328K (inferred from the name graph)
171 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
redução popular de Tesser, tecelão, ou de Contessi
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tessi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 171 | 1 in 1.9M | 160 | Tessi | 26 |
| PE Peru | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 541K | — | Tessi | 15 |
| BR Brazil | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 7.6M | 123 | Tessi | 28 |
| PH Philippines | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 5.9M | — | Tessi | 5 |
| FI Finland | 17 | 1 in 328K | 46 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 691K | 3 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | 2 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 936K | — | Tessi | 4 |
171 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tessi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, inflection of tessere:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cristina Tessib. 1972ARArgentine tennis player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 123 | #54,074 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tessi mean?
- Recorded meaning: redução popular de Tesser, tecelão, ou de Contessi
- Is Tessi a male or female name?
- Tessi is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Tessi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 171 people named Tessi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tessi.
- Where is Tessi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tessi is densest in Finland — about 1 in 328 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tessi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 171 people named Tessi in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tessiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tessi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.