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Tere

Girls' name

Short form of Teresa

Tere has been given to 391 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1959, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Tere, 2011

1 in 732,000

Tere over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tere: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Teresa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tere means

Tere is a short form of Teresa.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tere is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈte.ɾe/ for Tere.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Teresa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 385 girls were recorded with the name Tere between 1946 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1959; its best national rank was #2,390 in 1959.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Tere between 1992 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1992; its best national rank was #8,338 in 1992.

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 Tere?

Tere had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tere 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 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tere. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Teres were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tere was born before 1964 — so the typical Tere is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
32.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
362
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (126).

Is Tere 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 1959 (24)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,390
1959

Spellings of Tere

Tere is not the most common spelling — Teresa is, with 27.6% against Tere's 0.03%.

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.

Where Tere is used

Across 1910–2025, Tere was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tere has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tere around the world

Where Tere 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
    1963–1963
    #644
    in 1963

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

Tere 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
#2,390
1959
Peak year
1959
24 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
385
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,338
1992
Peak year
1992
6 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tere

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

TerrynTerieTerinTerezaTeriaTersaTereaTerylTeranTerrinTerreTerasaTerukoTerezTerryeTerenaTerranTerikaTerahTerynTerrahTerrylTerrianaTerren

Sibling names for Tere

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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