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Tresa

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tresa has been given to 4,849 babies in the U.S. since 1886. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1966, with 206 recorded.

Babies named Tresa, 2017

1 in 596,000

Tresa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tresa: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tresa means

Tresa is a given name.

The naming story behind Tresa

Wikidata records Tresa as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q19967650, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,849 girls were recorded with the name Tresa between 1886 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 206 in 1966; its best national rank was #679 in 1966.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Tresa?

Tresa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 288,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tresa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tresa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tresas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tresa was born before 1964 — so the typical Tresa is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,125
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (1,831).

Is Tresa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1966 (206)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#679
1966

Spellings of Tresa

Tresa is not the most common spelling — Teresa is, with 27.0% against Tresa's 0.31%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tresa is used

Across 1910–2025, Tresa was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 56,169 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 14,286
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 20,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 25,000
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 25,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 25,000
  6. 6Utah1 in 25,000
  7. 7West Virginia1 in 25,000
  8. 8Kansas1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tresa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tresa around the world

Where Tresa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1965–1965
    #674
    in 1965

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tresa

People whose public names include Tresa, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tresa in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tresa. Linked forms have their own page here.

Tressa

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tresa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#679
1966
Peak year
1966
206 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
4,849
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tresa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Tresa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tresa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Tresa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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