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Tressie

#17,066 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tressie has been given to 5,366 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #17,066 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 139 recorded.

Babies named Tressie, 2025

1 in 663,000

Tressie over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tressie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tressie means

Tressie is a given name.

The naming story behind Tressie

Wikidata records Tressie as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q100997986, 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, 5,360 girls were recorded with the name Tressie between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 139 in 1921; its best national rank was #402 in 1901.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,052 in 2020 to #17,066 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #16,265 in 2015 to #17,066 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Tressie between 1917 and 1917. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1917; its best national rank was #3,930 in 1917.

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 Tressie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#17,066
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tressie 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tressie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tressies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tressie was born before 1925 — so the typical Tressie is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,321
People you could plausibly meet
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1920s — 19.7% of all recorded uses (1,055).

Is Tressie 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
+420
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,014
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−801
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.6%
Peak was 1921 (139)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#402
1901

Spellings of Tressie

Tressie is not the most common spelling — Bessie is, with 39.0% against Tressie's 1.2%.

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 Tressie is used

Across 1910–2025, Tressie was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 44,503 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

019 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 5,263
  2. 2West Virginia1 in 6,667
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 9,091
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 12,500
  5. 5Alabama1 in 14,286
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 14,286
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 16,667
  8. 8Georgia1 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. Tressie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tressie around the world

Where Tressie 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.

  • France
    1987–2004
    #4,743
    in 2004

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Tressie

People whose public names include Tressie, 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.

Tressie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,066
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,014
Best rank ever
#402
1901
Peak year
1921
139 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,360
Count in 2025
5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,930
1917
Peak year
1917
6 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1917
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tressie

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

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Names with a curve like Tressie

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

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Sibling names for Tressie

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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