Contessa
A girls’ name of Italian origin, meaning countess; feminine title of nobility.
Babies a year
7
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list
Contessa by the numbers
Contessa was given to 7 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 130 babies in 1983, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Contessa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Concettaconceived; referring to the Immaculate Conception5 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean nobility
Like Contessa, each of these has nobility in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Aubreyelf ruler; noble strength6,029 in the US (2017)
- Audreynoble strength4,820 in the US (2017)
- Aaliyahhigh, exalted, of high rank4,167 in the US (2017)
- Allisonnoble natured; a form of Alison4,017 in the US (2017)
- Adelinenoble, nobility3,902 in the US (2017)
- Alicenoble, of noble kind825 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Contessa
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