Girl

Terese

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
—
under 5 girls
Peak
#571
in 1955
1950
#899
rank

Terese: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #571 in 1955.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #571 in 1955. No US babies were recorded with the name Terese in 2025.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #571 in 1955.

Babies in 2025
0
Since 1880
6,503
Years on record
114

Babies named Terese, every year since 1880

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Girls

Terese: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #571 in 1955 · most girls in one year: 268 (1957).

About the name Terese

Fewer than five US girls were named Terese in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #571, reached in 1955. The most girls given the name in a single year was 268, in 1957. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #899 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Terese in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 5 babies. In all, 6,503 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,080 babies named Terese.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 20 US girls were named Terese; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 8.

Related spellings in the SSA files include Teresa (417,209 babies since 1880), Theresa (405,831 babies since 1880), Therese (35,595 babies since 1880) and Teresia (1,133 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Terez, Tereas and Teris are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Terez (557), Tereas (20), Teris (5).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Terese in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
20208#12,045——
20185#17,898——
20167#14,202——
20116#16,591——
20096#17,112——
20088#13,717——
200711#10,765——
20067#15,020——
200511#10,074——
200410#10,623——
20039#11,251——
200216#7,020——
200112#8,705——
200018#6,189——
199910#9,415——
199829#4,015——
199720#5,212——
199620#5,046——
199524#4,343——
199421#4,831——
199328#3,869——
199237#3,140——
199137#3,091——
199037#3,070——
198923#4,240——
198835#2,979——
198737#2,716——
198644#2,338——
198539#2,541——
198466#1,681——
198355#1,904——
198256#1,918——
198168#1,697——
198073#1,603——
197962#1,765——
197846#2,089——
197747#2,059——
197667#1,533——
197567#1,525——
197459#1,615——
197369#1,430——
197275#1,351——
197189#1,252——
1970115#1,067——
1969115#1,018——
1968106#1,011——
1967114#957——
1966141#842——
1965179#750——
1964201#735——
1963221#677——
1962236#663——
1961267#627——
1960242#652——
1959258#621——
1958228#658——
1957268#591——
1956257#591——
1955256#571——
1954233#595——
1953178#678——
1952158#709——
1951146#724——
195098#899——
194972#1,063——
194861#1,154——
194753#1,252——
194642#1,358——
194522#1,819——
194430#1,518——
194329#1,587——
194219#2,038——
194123#1,690——
194013#2,403——
193920#1,786——
193818#1,937——
193725#1,531——
193619#1,794——
193519#1,839——
193422#1,646——
193321#1,713——
193226#1,515——
193124#1,587——
193032#1,365——
192922#1,754——
192841#1,205——
192738#1,301——
192641#1,218——
192533#1,438——
192417#2,301——
192312#2,896——
192216#2,371——
192117#2,273——
192011#3,075——
191913#2,625——
19189#3,487——
191711#2,859——
191611#2,812——
191516#2,040——
191421#1,437——
191315#1,593——
19128#2,335——
19115#2,823——
19106#2,374——
19079#1,497——
19065#2,188——
19055#2,205——
19047#1,644——
19026#1,771——
19007#1,712——
18995#1,814——
18955#1,787——
18905#1,514——
18895#1,463——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).