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Iridessa

Gender
Girl
Say it
eer-ih-DES-ah
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#4,171 for girls

Iridessa is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “iridescent, rainbow-like”. In 2025 it ranked 4,171st for girls in the US (34 babies).

What does Iridessa mean?

Modern: coined from iridescent, ultimately from Greek iris 'rainbow'

“iridescent, rainbow-like”

Iridessa is a light-talent fairy in Disney's Tinker Bell films, her name drawn from the word iridescent.

Is Iridessa a girl's or a boy's name?

Iridessa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 34 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Iridessa in the US?

Rank in 2025
4,171st among girls
Babies in 2025
34 about 1 in 47,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising up 94% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 34 girls in the US were named Iridessa, making it the 4,171st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. It first appears in the records in 2008.

2025 had the most girls named Iridessa of any year since it first appeared, in 2008.

Half of all the girls named Iridessa in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

2008Busiest: 34 in 20252025
Iridessa in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202534#4,171
202417#6,639
202313#8,050
202218#6,459
202114#7,625
202014#7,554
201911#9,106
20188#11,422
201711#9,337
201613#8,390
20159#10,861
20146#14,552
20138#11,964
201217#7,140
201113#8,610
20107#13,442
20098#12,423
200810#10,802

Names like Iridessa

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Iridessa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/iridessa, updated 20 October 2026.