Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Tressie isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tressie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,366
- 6 boys · 5,360 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 142 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #17,070 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 17,070 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 139 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,570 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tressie’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Tressie
- Tressie McMillan CottomAmerican writer, sociologist, and professorborn 1976
- Tressie SoudersAfrican-American film director1897–1995
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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