Tressie

Where Tressie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Tressie.

  • Vowel-ended
Tressie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls, with 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, its best rank.
  4. 1947
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,146.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.