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Tressa

#14,779 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Theresa

Tressa has been given to 7,034 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #14,779 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 193 recorded.

Babies named Tressa, 2025

1 in 553,000

Tressa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tressa: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Theresa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tressa means

Tressa is a form of Theresa.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tressa is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɹɛs.ə/ for Tressa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tressa → Theresa. The family’s proposed meaning is “summer”, recorded in the naming reference for Theresa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Theresa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,034 girls were recorded with the name Tressa between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 193 in 1971; its best national rank was #526 in 1896.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,926 in 2020 to #14,779 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,639 in 2015 to #14,779 in 2025.

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 Tressa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,779
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tressa 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tressa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tressas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tressa was born before 1971 — so the typical Tressa is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
20.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,266
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Choose a decade

1970s — 20.6% of all recorded uses (1,450).

Is Tressa 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
+2,706
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,853
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−9,140
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.1%
Peak was 1971 (193)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#526
1896

Spellings of Tressa

Tressa is not the most common spelling — Teresa is, with 63.8% against Tressa's 1.1%.

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 Tressa is used

Across 1910–2025, Tressa was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 62,473 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 25,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 50,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 50,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

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. Tressa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tressa around the world

Where Tressa 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.

  • Canada
    1992–2006
    #2,587
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1965–1965
    #674
    in 1965

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tressa in other languages

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

Tresa

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

Tressa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,779
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,853
Best rank ever
#526
1896
Peak year
1971
193 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,034
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Tressa

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

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Names with a curve like Tressa

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

ImeldaDemetraCammieStaciaCorinnaMalissaMichellJeanaAntionetteAnthonyAletheaMelonie

Sibling names for Tressa

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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