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Tereza

#14,762 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Theresa

Tereza has been given to 797 babies in the U.S. since 1929. In 2025 it ranked #14,762 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Tereza, 2025

1 in 553,000

Tereza over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tereza: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Theresa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tereza means

Tereza is a form of Theresa.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tereza is used in Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Romanian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɛ.rɛ.za/ and /te.ˈre.za/ for Tereza.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tereza → Theresa. The family’s proposed meaning is “summer”, recorded in the naming reference for Theresa.

Origin, language, and formation

Tereza is used in Czech and Serbo-Croatian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Theresa and Teresa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Tereza is pronounced [ˈtɛrɛza].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 797 girls were recorded with the name Tereza between 1929 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1996; its best national rank was #2,908 in 1962.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,041 in 2020 to #14,762 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,795 in 2015 to #14,762 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 Tereza?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,762
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tereza 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tereza. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Terezas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tereza was born before 1992 — so the typical Tereza is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
18.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
767
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 18.6% of all recorded uses (148).

Is Tereza 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
−6,848
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,721
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,967
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.3%
Peak was 1996 (22)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,908
1962

Spellings of Tereza

Tereza is not the most common spelling — Teresa is, with 43.7% against Tereza's 0.08%.

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 Tereza is used

Across 1910–2025, Tereza was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 203,708 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 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. Tereza has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tereza around the world

Where Tereza 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
    2005–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2008–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    1926–1998
    #4,255
    in 1998
  • Canada
    2000–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1967–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Tereza by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,762
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,721
Best rank ever
#2,908
1962
Peak year
1996
22 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
797
Count in 2025
6

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