Tessie
A girls’ name of Greek origin, meaning harvester; a diminutive of Theresa.
Tessie by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Tessie. In the US, 7 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 393 babies in 1917, so it is a 1910s name that has since fallen a long way.
Other names that come from Theresa
Like Tessie, each of these traces back to Theresa: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Tessie. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Tessiharvester; a form of Tessa5 in the US (2017)
- Tressieform of tress or tressa5 in the US (2017)
- Tessaharvester; a form of Theresa1,283 in the US (2017)
- Teddiegift of god; a form of Theodore or Edward141 in England and Wales (2025)
- Tesniwarmth5 in England and Wales (2025)
- Tessahharvester; a form of Tessa5 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Tessie
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