# Tressie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tressie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,366 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6 / 5,360 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 11 | 9,851 |
| 2005 | 9 | 11,769 |
| 2006 | 13 | 9,244 |
| 2007 | 8 | 13,844 |
| 2008 | 9 | 12,514 |
| 2009 | 8 | 13,606 |
| 2010 | 10 | 11,190 |
| 2014 | 6 | 16,372 |
| 2015 | 6 | 16,270 |
| 2017 | 5 | 18,241 |
| 2018 | 5 | 17,941 |
| 2019 | 6 | 15,411 |
| 2020 | 8 | 12,057 |
| 2024 | 5 | 17,491 |
| 2025 | 5 | 17,070 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 6 | 3,931 |

## People named Tressie

- Tressie McMillan Cottom, American writer, sociologist, and professor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.