Meaning not yet researched.
Therese: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 79 in 2025. Its best rank was #220 in 1927.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #220 in 1927; #2,324 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Therese in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,324 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1927, at #220.
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Therese: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 79 girls in 2025. Peak: #220 in 1927 · most girls in one year: 1,211 (1959).
In 2025, 79 US girls were named Therese, making it the 2,324th most common girls’ name of the year, down 127 places from #2,197 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 87 girls named Therese in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #220, reached in 1927. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,211, in 1959. For comparison, it was #2,807 in 2015 and #325 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Therese in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 11 babies with the name. In all, 35,595 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 9,333 babies named Therese.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 667 US girls were named Therese; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 87. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,345 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Therese ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,537 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Teresa (417,209 babies since 1880), Theresa (405,831 babies since 1880), Terese (6,503 babies since 1880) and Treasa (1,671 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Terease, Terise and Thereas are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Danish and German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Terease (66), Terise (28), Thereas (21), Terase (10), Therease (5), Tirese (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 Therese in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 9 | #1,537 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,612 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,681 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #3,258 | #3,751 |
| California | 5 | #3,488 | #2,473 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,324 | — | — |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,513 | — | — |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,108 | — | — |
| 2020 | 54 | #3,011 | — | — |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,498 | — | — |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,582 | — | — |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,739 | — | — |
| 2016 | 79 | #2,382 | — | — |
| 2015 | 63 | #2,807 | — | — |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,494 | — | — |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,310 | — | — |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,265 | — | — |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,450 | — | — |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,612 | — | — |
| 2009 | 76 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 2008 | 79 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 2007 | 71 | #2,615 | — | — |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,537 | — | — |
| 2005 | 91 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 2004 | 79 | #2,239 | — | — |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,366 | — | — |
| 2002 | 96 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 2001 | 118 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 2000 | 92 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1999 | 103 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 1998 | 95 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 1997 | 98 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1996 | 78 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 1995 | 109 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1994 | 107 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1993 | 113 | #1,436 | — | — |
| 1992 | 121 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1991 | 113 | #1,427 | — | — |
| 1990 | 116 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1989 | 135 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1988 | 106 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1987 | 133 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1986 | 116 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1985 | 152 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1984 | 153 | #952 | — | — |
| 1983 | 155 | #953 | — | — |
| 1982 | 164 | #924 | — | — |
| 1981 | 163 | #926 | — | — |
| 1980 | 154 | #964 | — | — |
| 1979 | 168 | #893 | — | — |
| 1978 | 142 | #980 | — | — |
| 1977 | 154 | #916 | — | — |
| 1976 | 175 | #799 | — | — |
| 1975 | 174 | #799 | — | — |
| 1974 | 188 | #753 | — | — |
| 1973 | 227 | #657 | — | — |
| 1972 | 174 | #790 | — | — |
| 1971 | 237 | #666 | — | — |
| 1970 | 304 | #582 | — | — |
| 1969 | 337 | #537 | — | — |
| 1968 | 408 | #476 | — | — |
| 1967 | 442 | #452 | — | — |
| 1966 | 557 | #385 | — | — |
| 1965 | 721 | #337 | — | — |
| 1964 | 853 | #321 | — | — |
| 1963 | 970 | #298 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,019 | #285 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,080 | #281 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,197 | #258 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,211 | #252 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,139 | #259 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,131 | #254 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,069 | #257 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,078 | #252 | — | — |
| 1954 | 889 | #284 | — | — |
| 1953 | 828 | #288 | — | — |
| 1952 | 826 | #280 | — | — |
| 1951 | 607 | #321 | — | — |
| 1950 | 555 | #325 | — | — |
| 1949 | 494 | #354 | — | — |
| 1948 | 476 | #355 | — | — |
| 1947 | 410 | #399 | — | — |
| 1946 | 354 | #407 | — | — |
| 1945 | 273 | #434 | — | — |
| 1944 | 246 | #457 | — | — |
| 1943 | 233 | #485 | — | — |
| 1942 | 249 | #469 | — | — |
| 1941 | 213 | #480 | — | — |
| 1940 | 217 | #455 | — | — |
| 1939 | 212 | #459 | — | — |
| 1938 | 238 | #435 | — | — |
| 1937 | 229 | #431 | — | — |
| 1936 | 260 | #395 | — | — |
| 1935 | 295 | #369 | — | — |
| 1934 | 262 | #405 | — | — |
| 1933 | 306 | #362 | — | — |
| 1932 | 398 | #322 | — | — |
| 1931 | 451 | #299 | 5 | #4,272 |
| 1930 | 576 | #260 | — | — |
| 1929 | 664 | #240 | — | — |
| 1928 | 776 | #226 | — | — |
| 1927 | 841 | #220 | — | — |
| 1926 | 781 | #227 | — | — |
| 1925 | 533 | #291 | — | — |
| 1924 | 289 | #406 | — | — |
| 1923 | 204 | #485 | — | — |
| 1922 | 145 | #600 | — | — |
| 1921 | 145 | #602 | — | — |
| 1920 | 123 | #654 | — | — |
| 1919 | 119 | #636 | — | — |
| 1918 | 129 | #624 | — | — |
| 1917 | 111 | #648 | — | — |
| 1916 | 117 | #629 | — | — |
| 1915 | 115 | #610 | — | — |
| 1914 | 100 | #565 | — | — |
| 1913 | 74 | #603 | — | — |
| 1912 | 52 | #703 | — | — |
| 1911 | 37 | #721 | — | — |
| 1910 | 45 | #636 | — | — |
| 1909 | 32 | #718 | — | — |
| 1908 | 30 | #721 | — | — |
| 1907 | 39 | #599 | — | — |
| 1906 | 30 | #676 | — | — |
| 1905 | 28 | #681 | — | — |
| 1904 | 37 | #556 | — | — |
| 1903 | 30 | #605 | — | — |
| 1902 | 22 | #753 | — | — |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1900 | 26 | #722 | — | — |
| 1899 | 22 | #678 | — | — |
| 1898 | 22 | #715 | — | — |
| 1897 | 26 | #614 | — | — |
| 1896 | 16 | #838 | — | — |
| 1895 | 33 | #519 | — | — |
| 1894 | 17 | #739 | — | — |
| 1893 | 20 | #657 | — | — |
| 1892 | 12 | #904 | — | — |
| 1891 | 23 | #557 | — | — |
| 1890 | 13 | #789 | — | — |
| 1889 | 11 | #835 | — | — |
| 1888 | 14 | #720 | — | — |
| 1887 | 9 | #853 | — | — |
| 1886 | 15 | #604 | — | — |
| 1885 | 13 | #625 | — | — |
| 1884 | 12 | #638 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 1882 | 6 | #893 | — | — |
| 1881 | 6 | #818 | — | — |
| 1880 | 11 | #543 | — | — |
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).