Contessa · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Contessa.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1957

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 65 recorded years as a table

Contessa, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1957	4
1958	4
1959	2
1961	3
1962	4
1963	6
1964	5
1965	5
1966	8
1967	6
1968	3
1969	8
1970	15
1971	20
1972	30
1973	66
1974	38
1975	45
1976	39
1977	29
1978	27
1979	24
1980	23
1981	26
1982	41
1983	78
1984	49
1985	42
1986	24
1987	24
1988	29
1989	33
1990	25
1991	19
1992	18
1993	11
1994	18
1995	18
1996	15
1997	11
1998	17
1999	14
2000	10
2001	11
2002	10
2003	13
2004	23
2005	16
2006	19
2007	20
2008	20
2009	14
2010	19
2011	12
2012	14
2013	15
2014	11
2015	10
2016	10
2017	4
2018	4
2019	3
2020	4
2021	7
2023	8

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Contessa isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2023: 13
Rank in 2023: #8,055
How rare: 1 in 123,429 girls
Since 1957: 2,040

Contessa was last recorded in 2023. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1983, at 78 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Contessa doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.