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Teressa

#17,032 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Teressa has been given to 6,480 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #17,032 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 266 recorded.

Babies named Teressa, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Teressa: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Teressa means

Teressa is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Teressa is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,480 girls were recorded with the name Teressa between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 266 in 1960; its best national rank was #617 in 1960.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #14,930 in 2020 to #17,032 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #16,245 in 2015 to #17,032 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 Teressa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#17,032
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Teressa 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Teressa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Teressas were born

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

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,871
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Choose a decade

1960s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (2,229).

Is Teressa 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
+418
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,102
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−787
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.9%
Peak was 1960 (266)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#617
1960

Spellings of Teressa

Teressa is not the most common spelling — Teresa is, with 44.2% against Teressa's 0.69%.

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 Teressa is used

Across 1910–2025, Teressa was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 35,692 across all states with data. It was least common in Iowa (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 9,091
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 11,111
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 12,500
  4. 4Alabama1 in 16,667
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 16,667
  6. 6Georgia1 in 16,667
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 16,667
  8. 8Virginia1 in 16,667

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

Teressa around the world

Where Teressa 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.

  • England & Wales
    2023–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1992–2001
    #2,611
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1953–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Teressa

People whose public names include Teressa, 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.

Teressa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,032
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,102
Best rank ever
#617
1960
Peak year
1960
266 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,480
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Teressa

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

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Names with a curve like Teressa

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

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Sibling names for Teressa

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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