Contessa
Contessa is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1983130 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1957
- 2,040people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,040 girls have been named Contessa in the United States since 1957, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1983, with 130 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 130 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1985, and the 1980s alone account for 31%.
By decade
In 1983, its biggest year
Contessa was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1983 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Ashley and Sarah. See all of 1983.
Names that rose and fell with Contessa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nickolepeak 1986
- Terrapeak 1980
- Kristalpeak 1982
- Charissapeak 1980
- Aprylpeak 1981
- Talinapeak 1981
- Kamipeak 1980
- Seemapeak 1981
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.