Tessy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A diminutive of the female given names Theresa or Teresa
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: SSA, 2022
/tessi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Tessy is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Luxembourg it is the 97th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 30K
- NLNetherlands1 in 102K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Luxembourg, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A diminutive of the female given names Theresa or Teresa.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tessy 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Tessy | 64 |
| IN India | — | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 150K | 1 | Tessy | 48 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Tessy | 38 |
| US United States | — | 528 | 1 in 630K | 519 | Tessy | 177 |
| LU Luxembourg | #97 | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Tessy | 14 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 5 | Tessy | 22 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Tessy | 5 |
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; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Tessy Calladob. 1950BRBrazilian journalist and actor
- Tessy María López Goerneb. 1960MXMexican solid-state chemist
- Tessy Ojob. 1971NGNigerian chief executive
- Tessy Weisb. 1978LULuxembourgian-German basketball player
- Tessy Bamberg-Schitterb. 1980LULuxembourgian association football player
- Tessy Scholtesb. 1981LULuxembourgian karateka and politician
- Tessy Antony de Nassaub. 1985LULuxembourgian businesswoman and non-profit executive
- Tessy Aulnerb. 1994LUbadminton player
- Tessy Eboseleb. 2002ESSpanish athlete (born 2002)
- Tessy IgomuNGNigerian journalist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 519 | #19,838 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 10 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #19,838 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 5 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2002 | 5 | #1,196 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1990 | 1 | — |
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 Tessy mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the female given names Theresa or Teresa. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Tessy?
- In the etymology graph, Teresa, Tess and Tessie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Tessy?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /tessi/; in Swahili /tessj/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Tessy a male or female name?
- Tessy is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Tessy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Tessy in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tessy.
- How common is the name Tessy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 528 people named Tessy in 2020, about 1 in 630 thousand residents.
- How common is Tessy compared with other names?
- In Luxembourg, Tessy is the 97th most common given name of 521 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tessyThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Tessy” — the 97th most common given name in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.