No, I have a Chinese name, meaning my full name is three characters in Chinese and three separate words in English, but the first is the surname and the last two are the first name. So my first name is nothing like any variation of
Tessa at all -- in fact thinking of it now it could probably sound
incredibly pompous to use such an 'English' name (the language not the people).
Haha I'm kind of grateful to find someone who doesn't like it :) I'm very biased on what I think of names, and usually I just get influenced by the personality of someone/a character I know that has that name. In this case I've only ever known characters called
Tessa or
Tess, and I liked both of them. The two syllables in
Tessa got me in the end though. Plus the 'A' at the end gives a little extra guarantee that people write both 'S'es (I hope)