Cressy
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Abounding in cresses
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cressy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cook Islands it is the 63rd most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 539K(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 94K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 154K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 94K (inferred from the name graph)
617 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Abounding in cresses.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cressy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 617 | 1 in 539K | 617 | Cressy | 167 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 387K | listed | Cressy | 64 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 373K | — | Cressy | 27 |
| FR France | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 700K | 10 | — | 2 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 550K | — | Cressy | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Cressy | 27 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Cressy | 1 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 214K | — | Cressy | 2 |
| CK Cook Islands | #63 | — | — | — | Cressy | 1 |
617 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cressy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, English form of Crecy
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Harold Cressyb. 1889ZATeacher, activist
- Noah Cressyb. 1920author
- Maurice Renomab. 1940FRnot in their usual nameFrench photographer and designer
- Gordon Cressyb. 1943CACanadian politician (born 1943)
- David Cressyb. 1946USAmerican historian
- Joe Cressyb. 1984CACanadian politician
- Jessica Cressyb. 1990actress
- Maxime Cressyb. 1997USAmerican tennis player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 617 | #36,286 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 613 | #34,856 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 554 | #42,180 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 6 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cressy mean, and where does it come from?
- Abounding in cresses. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Cressy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 617 people named Cressy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cressy.
- How common is the name Cressy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 617 people named Cressy in 2010, about 1 in 539 thousand residents.
- How common is Cressy compared with other names?
- In Cook Islands, Cressy is the 63rd most common surname of 473 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cressyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cressy” — the 63rd most common surname in Cook Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.