Thressa
Thressa was last recorded in 1992, when 5 babies were given it; 1,004 Americans have been recorded with it between 1888 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Thressa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Thressa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,410, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1916, the peak
Thressa peaked in 1916, when 27 girls were given it, #1,441 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 5 | #15,410 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,256 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,933 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #12,020 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,990 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,345 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,910 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,742 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,379 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,077 | 7.2 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 12 | #4,788 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #7,007 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,556 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,981 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,464 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 18 | #3,032 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,720 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,465 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,848 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,911 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,945 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,893 | 9.4 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,855 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,853 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,642 | 9.8 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,812 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,084 | 7.7 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,881 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,585 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,450 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,470 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,524 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,591 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,823 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,886 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,728 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,900 | 8.4 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,846 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,178 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,480 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,123 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,562 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,553 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,347 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,160 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,417 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,529 | 11.9 |
| 1932 | 10 | #3,027 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,415 | 12.2 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,928 | 16.9 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,116 | 9.0 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,609 | 11.3 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,930 | 17.6 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,992 | 16.9 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,367 | 13.1 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,651 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 19 | #2,083 | 15.7 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,756 | 10.8 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,917 | 17.8 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,662 | 21.7 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,149 | 15.0 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,749 | 19.9 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,768 | 19.4 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,441 | 25.9 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,953 | 17.3 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,247 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,520 | 25.6 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,608 | 12.5 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,174 | 16.7 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,280 | 34.6 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,842 | 20.9 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,195 | 16.9 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,849 | 21.8 |
| 1902 | 5 | #2,014 | 18.9 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,452 | 29.2 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,713 | 23.4 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,530 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,404 | 29.4 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,436 | 28.3 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,326 | 31.5 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,261 | 33.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Thressa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Thressa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Thressa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Thressa, and how old are they?
An estimated 424 Americans named Thressa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (42% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 59 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 459 people named Thressa (458 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 489 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 415,405 babies since 1880, Thressa is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 136 babies recorded by SSA was a Thressa (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Thressa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Thressa and names like it
- Compare Thressa and TheresaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sThressa peaked in 1916.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Thressa since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Thressa.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Thressa alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.