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Girl's name · #911 in the US (2025) · Retro
Teresa's best rank, #18, came in 1961; it has stepped well back to #911 today. Roughly 416,000 girls have been named Teresa since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 28 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#100 in Spain (2024) · #132 in Poland (2025) · #153 in Mexico (2024) · #402 in Austria (2025) · #562 in Ecuador (2025) · #651 in Sweden (2025) · #783 in Switzerland (2025) · #1,107 in Ireland (2025) · #1,405 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,783 in France (2025) · #1,019 in Canada (2024).
Among 2,169 notable people named Teresa:
Medical professionals appear 1.54× more often than among typical names — e.g. Teresa Forcades, Spanish theologian (born 1966).
Together with its spelling variant Theresa (#1559), Teresa would rank around #664 with about 430 births last year — the newborns split about 68/32 between Teresa and Theresa.
About 1,000 girls a year are given Tessa as their full name and 120 Tess.
Similar names: Theresa · Renee · Terra · Lisa · Paula · Carla
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