Tessa’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Tessa
Tessa's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Tessa's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Tessa: meaning and origin
Tessa is a contracted form of Theresa, says Behind the Name. Its related names include Tess, Tessie, Teri, Terri, Tracy and Tressa in English, and Tess, Thera and Trees in Dutch. Behind the Name’s page shows Theresa traveling through Teresa, Thérèse and Therese in many languages.
Nicknames and variants
Behind the Name lists Tess and Tessie as variants of Tessa, with Teri, Terri, Terrie, Terry, Tracey, Traci, Tracie, Tracy and Tressa among the other forms of Theresa. Dutch bearers may use Tess, Thera or Trees. Tess is the usual short form.
Famous people named Tessa
Tessa Thompson, born October 3, 1983, is an American actress. Wikipedia says she began on stage with the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, made her film debut in When a Stranger Calls (2006), and was praised for playing civil rights activist Diane Nash in Selma (2014) and for Dear White People (2014).
Is Tessa a popular name?
Tessa never appeared in a Social Security top-200 decade table, from the 1880s to the 2010s. Behind the Name’s US chart has it in the top 1,000 in 60 years between 1964 and 2025, best at 190th in 2007, and it was 311th in 2025, so it has been a steady choice for decades.
Tessa trivia
Wikipedia’s list of Tessas runs from Tessa Virtue, a Canadian ice dancer born in 1989, and Tessa Sanderson, a British javelin thrower born in 1956, to Tessa Jowell (1947 to 2018), a British Labour politician. It also lists fictional Tessas, such as the protagonist of Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices novels.
Gift ideas that suit a Tessa
- For an actress. A notebook for scripts, lines and auditions.
- For a Shakespeare fan. A journal for sonnets and stage notes.
- For Valentine’s Day. A friendly gift for a favorite Tess.
- For Christmas. A classic short name for a holiday journal.
How Tessa can use it
Any Tessa, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Tessa can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Tessa’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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