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Taresa

Girls' name

English equivalent of Theresa

Taresa has been given to 432 babies in the U.S. since 1948. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1970, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Taresa, 1993

1 in 628,000

Taresa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Taresa: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Theresa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Taresa means

Taresa is a English equivalent of Theresa.

Origin, language, and formation

Taresa is used in Asturian and Old Leonese.

Taresa comes through Old Leonese Taresa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Theresa and Teresa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Asturian, Taresa is pronounced /taˈɾesa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 432 girls were recorded with the name Taresa between 1948 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1970; its best national rank was #3,050 in 1963.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Taresa?

Taresa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993
1 in 628,000
6 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only
1 in 301,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
435,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taresa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1993 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 435,382 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taresa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taresas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taresa was born before 1971 — so the typical Taresa is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
422
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (139).

Is Taresa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1970 (22)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,050
1963

Spellings of Taresa

Taresa is not the most common spelling — Teresa is, with 34.9% against Taresa's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Taresa around the world

Where Taresa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1950–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Taresa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,050
1963
Peak year
1970
22 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
432
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Taresa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Taresa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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