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.