Tressel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: wood turner, from Old High German dresil ‘turner’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈtɹɛsəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tressel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 596K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 802K
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tressel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 596K (inferred from the name graph)
415 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)wood turner, from Old High German dresil ‘turner’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tressel 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 | 415 | 1 in 802K | 415 | Tressel | 24 |
| NL Netherlands | 29 | 1 in 596K | 29 | — | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | — | Tressel | 45 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Tressel | 4 |
415 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)Tressel 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, Dated spelling of trestle.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Mária Tresselb. 1946HUHungarian gymnast
- Henri-Paul Tresselb. 1951FRFrench politician
- Jim Tresselb. 1952USAmerican college football coach and politician (born 1952)
- Laura Tresselb. 1976FIFinnish writer
- Markus Tresselb. 1977DEGerman politician
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 415 | #50,362 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 406 | #54,736 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 369 | #52,714 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 29 | #41,717 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #171,573 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Tressel mean, and where does it come from?
- wood turner, from Old High German dresil ‘turner’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Tressel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɹɛsəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tressel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 415 people named Tressel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tressel.
- Where is Tressel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tressel is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 596 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tressel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 415 people named Tressel in 2010, about 1 in 802 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tresselThe 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, “Tressel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.