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Teresita

#10,043 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Teresa

Teresita has been given to 3,376 babies in the U.S. since 1891. In 2025 it ranked #10,043 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1962, with 80 recorded.

Babies named Teresita, 2025

1 in 332,000

Teresita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Teresita: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Teresa

Spanish

What Teresita means

Teresita is a diminutive of Teresa.

Origin, language, and formation

Teresita is used in English, Cebuano, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Teresita comes through Spanish Teresita.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Teresa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Cebuano, Teresita is pronounced /teɾeˈsita/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,376 girls were recorded with the name Teresita between 1891 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 80 in 1962; its best national rank was #1,233 in 1962.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,895 in 2020 to #10,043 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,750 in 2015 to #10,043 in 2025.

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 Teresita?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,043
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Teresita 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 2025 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Teresita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Teresitas were born

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

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
19.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,824
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Choose a decade

1960s — 19.3% of all recorded uses (650).

Is Teresita 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
−1,658
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,148
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,707
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.5%
Peak was 1962 (80)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,233
1962

Spellings of Teresita

Teresita is not the most common spelling — Teresa is, with 97.0% against Teresita's 0.79%.

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 Teresita is used

Across 1910–2025, Teresita was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 37,315 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 7,143
  2. 2California1 in 20,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 20,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5Hawaii1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 100,000
  8. 8New York1 in 100,000

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. Teresita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Teresita around the world

Where Teresita 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
    1961–1973
    #695
    in 1973

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

Notable people named Teresita

People whose public names include Teresita, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Teresita in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Teresita. Linked forms have their own page here.

TeresaTereseTerezaTheresTeresiaTheresaThereseTheresiaTêrêsaTeréziaThérèseTerezija

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Teresita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,043
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,148
Best rank ever
#1,233
1962
Peak year
1962
80 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,376
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Teresita

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

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Names with a curve like Teresita

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Teresita, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Teresita

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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