Thessaly
loc · Greek · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Thessaly is a name, most frequently recorded in Greece. It appears chiefly in Greek and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the name of the region in eastern central Greece.
- GRGreece1 in 73◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 13M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin●
From the name of the region in eastern central Greece. The place name is of ancient Illyrian origin and uncertain meaning.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | 126,544 | 100% |
| GB United Kingdom | 22 | 1% |
≈126,566 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Greek36K29%
- English221%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Greek | 36,496 | 29% |
| English | 22 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Thessaly is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, region, Greece
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, A historical region and administrative region in north-central Greece; one of its 13 peripheries. It contains the prefectures of Karditsa, Larissa, Magnesia and Trikala.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 8 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2021 | 9 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 11 years between 2005–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Thessaly Zimmermanb. 1994NLAruban beauty pageant titleholder
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 13 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Thessaly?
- Our records include 126,566 bearers of Thessaly across 2 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Thessaly have the most bearers?
- Thessaly is most frequently recorded in Greece.
- What does the name Thessaly mean?
- Recorded meaning: From the name of the region in eastern central Greece.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Thessaly”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.