Meaning not yet researched.
Teressa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #617 in 1960.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #617 in 1960; #17,036 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Teressa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#17,036 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #617.
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Teressa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #617 in 1960 · most girls in one year: 266 (1960).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Teressa, making it the 17,036th most common girls’ name of the year, up 419 places from #17,455 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 5 girls named Teressa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #617, reached in 1960. That year also had the most girls given the name: 266. For comparison, it was #16,250 in 2015 and #1,240 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Teressa in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 6,480 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 2,229 babies named Teressa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 16 US girls were named Teressa; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 6. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Teresa (417,209 babies since 1880), Theresa (405,831 babies since 1880), Terresa (1,571 babies since 1880) and Tereasa (1,415 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tyrissa and Terrissa 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tyrissa (16), Terrissa (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.
No nicknames listed for Teressa 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 | 5 | #17,036 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,455 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,935 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,250 | — | — |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,436 | — | — |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,363 | — | — |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,850 | — | — |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,247 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,183 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,101 | — | — |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,025 | — | — |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,974 | — | — |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,814 | — | — |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,469 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,801 | — | — |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,625 | — | — |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,752 | — | — |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,827 | — | — |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,139 | — | — |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,713 | — | — |
| 1998 | 29 | #4,016 | — | — |
| 1997 | 28 | #4,001 | — | — |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,896 | — | — |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,873 | — | — |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,226 | — | — |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,107 | — | — |
| 1992 | 49 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,533 | — | — |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,513 | — | — |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,615 | — | — |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,717 | — | — |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,417 | — | — |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,264 | — | — |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 1980 | 63 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1977 | 61 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 1976 | 80 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1975 | 92 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1974 | 101 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1973 | 112 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1972 | 138 | #907 | — | — |
| 1971 | 160 | #852 | — | — |
| 1970 | 183 | #778 | — | — |
| 1969 | 173 | #780 | — | — |
| 1968 | 196 | #693 | — | — |
| 1967 | 216 | #654 | — | — |
| 1966 | 202 | #689 | — | — |
| 1965 | 216 | #671 | — | — |
| 1964 | 238 | #663 | — | — |
| 1963 | 226 | #672 | — | — |
| 1962 | 250 | #639 | — | — |
| 1961 | 246 | #654 | — | — |
| 1960 | 266 | #617 | — | — |
| 1959 | 212 | #690 | — | — |
| 1958 | 220 | #668 | — | — |
| 1957 | 211 | #682 | — | — |
| 1956 | 182 | #714 | — | — |
| 1955 | 182 | #697 | — | — |
| 1954 | 147 | #774 | — | — |
| 1953 | 115 | #881 | — | — |
| 1952 | 87 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1951 | 68 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1950 | 56 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1949 | 63 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1948 | 55 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1946 | 19 | #2,223 | — | — |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,282 | — | — |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,970 | — | — |
| 1941 | 10 | #3,012 | — | — |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,186 | — | — |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,566 | — | — |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,433 | — | — |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,409 | — | — |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,508 | — | — |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,556 | — | — |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,417 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,708 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,016 | — | — |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,195 | — | — |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,824 | — | — |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,726 | — | — |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,274 | — | — |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,262 | — | — |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,785 | — | — |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,338 | — | — |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,632 | — | — |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,617 | — | — |
| 1922 | 20 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,494 | — | — |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,349 | — | — |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,677 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,351 | — | — |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,244 | — | — |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,147 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,648 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,938 | — | — |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,118 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,516 | — | — |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 1880 | 5 | #933 | — | — |
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).