Tresa

Where Tresa comes from

Tresa hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #993 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1929
    Tresa Hughes born
    American actress
  3. 1931
    Tresa Rüthers-Seeli born
    Swiss writer
  4. 1966
    Peak, #679
    206 babies named Tresa — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,315.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tresa Hughes · American actress, 1929–2011
  • Tresa Rüthers-Seeli · Swiss writer, born 1931

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.