Contessa
Recorded 1957–2023 · United States
Contessa was most popular in 1983, when 130 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,771 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,040 people named Contessa.
Contessa over time
How old is the name Contessa?
Contessa first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1957, which makes it about 68 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 65 of the 69 years since.
How many people are named Contessa?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,040 American births named Contessa between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,974 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Contessa in 2025?
Contessa was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Contessa getting more or less popular?
Contessa is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 12 births a year, against 22 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -45% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Contessa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Contessa is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,040 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Contessa?
Roughly 1,974 Americans named Contessa are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 41 years old, and half are between 27 and 49.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Contessa is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org