Tess
English
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editEtymology 1
editProper noun
editTess
- A diminutive of the female given name Teresa.
- 1999, Ed McBain, The Big Bad City, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139:
- Cynthia and Melinda, reduced to Cindy and Mindy, as Carella had dreaded would happen from the moment she named them. Her older daughter had fared better. Tess, modern and sleek for Teresa, which conjured up cobblestoned streets in a mountain village in Potenza.
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from German Tess, a variant of Tesch.
Proper noun
editTess (plural Tesses)
- A surname from German.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Tess is the 38582nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 573 individuals. Tess is most common among White (92.5%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tess”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
References
edit- Typhoon Tess on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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