Meaning not yet researched.
Teresita: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,233 in 1962.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,233 in 1962; #10,046 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Teresita in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,046 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1962, at #1,233.
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Teresita: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,233 in 1962 · most girls in one year: 80 (1962).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Teresita, making it the 10,046th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,656 places from #8,390 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 13 girls named Teresita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,233, reached in 1962. That year also had the most girls given the name: 80. For comparison, it was #11,755 in 2015 and #1,674 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Teresita in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1891 with 5 babies. In all, 3,376 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 650 babies named Teresita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 127 US girls were named Teresita; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Teresa (417,209 babies since 1880) and Teresia (1,133 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Teresina, Terecita and Theresita are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Philippine Spanish and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Teresina (163), Terecita (43), Theresita (26).
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.
No nicknames listed for Teresita in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,046 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,390 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,548 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,257 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,232 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,899 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,736 | — | — |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,105 | — | — |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,807 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,377 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,755 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,022 | — | — |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,468 | — | — |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,770 | — | — |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,746 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,182 | — | — |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,526 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,127 | — | — |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,532 | — | — |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,254 | — | — |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,806 | — | — |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,538 | — | — |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,207 | — | — |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,172 | — | — |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,933 | — | — |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,973 | — | — |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,635 | — | — |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,485 | — | — |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,294 | — | — |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,227 | — | — |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,973 | — | — |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,698 | — | — |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,042 | — | — |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,609 | — | — |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,436 | — | — |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,566 | — | — |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,763 | — | — |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,681 | — | — |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,967 | — | — |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,355 | — | — |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,650 | — | — |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,777 | — | — |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,270 | — | — |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,112 | — | — |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,607 | — | — |
| 1980 | 46 | #2,215 | — | — |
| 1979 | 44 | #2,244 | — | — |
| 1978 | 54 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 1977 | 50 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 1975 | 63 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,397 | — | — |
| 1972 | 52 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 1971 | 55 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1970 | 68 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1969 | 65 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 1968 | 55 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1967 | 63 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1966 | 54 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1965 | 68 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1964 | 77 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1963 | 68 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 1962 | 80 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 1961 | 54 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1960 | 66 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1959 | 47 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 1957 | 35 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 1956 | 32 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 1955 | 54 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1953 | 54 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 1950 | 32 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 1948 | 34 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,333 | — | — |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,090 | — | — |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,185 | — | — |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,327 | — | — |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,184 | — | — |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,554 | — | — |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,230 | — | — |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,095 | — | — |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,594 | — | — |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,273 | — | — |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,682 | — | — |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,557 | — | — |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,925 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,988 | — | — |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,927 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,972 | — | — |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,372 | — | — |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,478 | — | — |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,757 | — | — |
| 1917 | 7 | #4,041 | — | — |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,518 | — | — |
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).