Tressie

Where Tressie comes from

Tressie 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. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1897
    Tressie Souders born
    African-American film director
  3. 1901
    Peak, #397
    55 babies named Tressie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1947
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,146.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Tressie McMillan Cottom · American writer, sociologist, and professor
  • Tressie Souders · African-American film director, 1897–1995

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.