Tessa
Tessa is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
Tessa is generally understood as a short form of Therese , but is given independently as a name. The name has Italian overtones in 19th century literature, although it was not in use in Italy at the time.
Jean Giraudoux published a play Tessa, la nymphe au cœur fidèle in 1934 , based on Margaret Kennedy's 1924 novel The Constant Nymph , also with a Tessa as the main character. The Jamaican actress and fashion designer Tessa Prendergast (1928–2001) is one of the earliest prominent women to bear the name.
Name bearers
- Tessa Allen (* 1996), American actress
- Tessa Bergmeier (* 1989), German model
- Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone (born 1942), British politician
- Tessa Bremmer (* 1983), Dutch handball player
- Tessa Dahl (* 1957), British author and actress
- Tessa van Dijk (* 1986), Dutch speed skater
- Tessa Ganserer (* 1977), member of the Bavarian state parliament
- Tessa Hadley (* 1956), British writer
- Tessa Hofmann (married Tessa Savvidis; * 1949), German sociologist and non-fiction author
- Tessa James (born 1991), Australian actress
- Tessa Korber (* 1966), German writer
- Tessa Mittelstaedt (* 1974), German actress
- Tessa Obrusnik (* 1993), German actress
- Tessa Rinkes (* 1986), German soccer player
- Tessa Sanderson (* 1956), British javelin thrower and Olympic champion
- Tessa Souter (* 1956), British journalist, jazz singer and songwriter
- Tessa Thompson (born 1983), American actress
- Tessa Virtue (* 1989), Canadian figure skater
- Tessa Worley (* 1989), French ski racer
- Tessa Wullaert (* 1993), Belgian soccer player
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tessa on behindthename.com (Engl.)
- ^ A b Tessa in the Concise Dictionary of First Names
- ↑ Tessa Welborn. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
See also
- Tess (first name)
- Tessa (Niger) , rural community in Niger
- Tombokoye Tessa (around 1927–1990), Nigerien singer
- Tessa - Life for Love , German Telenovela (ZDF, 2006)