Tess - name meaning, origin

The girl's name Tess \t(e)-ss\ is a variant of Teresa (Greek), Tessa (English) and Theresa (Greek), and the meaning of Tess is "late summer".

The baby name Tess sounds like Tessy, Tesa and Tessi. Other similar baby names are Bess and Jess.

Tess is a very common first name for women (#1971 out of 4276) and a slightly less common last name for both men and women (#77230 out of 88799). (1990 U.S. Census)

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