Tress
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tɹɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tress is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 563K(measured from records)
- SCSeychelles≈1 in 15K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 175K
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
- 215 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
591 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Seychelles, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tress 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 | — | 591 | 1 in 563K | 847 | Tress | 215 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 319K | 138 | Tress | 77 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 258K | — | Tress | 42 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 922K | listed | Tress | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 508K | — | Tress | 22 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 240K | — | Tress | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Tress | 2 |
| SC Seychelles | #103 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Tress | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 175K | 13 | — | 1 |
591 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the xinhua-italian-manual register; the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Tress is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Breton, trace, figure ; mine, traits ; profil ; diagramme
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
In Latvian, šķieta zobs, niedres, cieta koka vai dzelzs plāksnīte
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- William Tressb. 1800GBrailway station architect
- Mike Tressb. 1909USPresident of Agudath Israel of America
- Ronald Tressb. 1915GBBritish academic
- Arthur Tressb. 1940USAmerican photographer (born 1940)
- Horst Tressb. 1950DEGerman author and painter
- Kyle Tressb. 1981USOlympic skeleton racer
- Lee TressUSbasketball 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 847 | #29,674 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 732 | #30,199 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 591 | #37,646 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 138 | #26,999 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 13 | #8,713 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 12 | #9,071 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Tress mean, and where does it come from?
- A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tress?
- A machine transcription gives /tɹɛs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tress have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 591 people named Tress, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tress.
- How common is the name Tress?
- In the United States, the national register counted 591 people named Tress in 2010, about 1 in 563 thousand residents.
- How common is Tress compared with other names?
- In the Seychelles, Tress is the 103rd most common surname of 2,002 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tressThe 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, “Tress” — the 103rd most common surname in Seychelles. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.