Teresa
Teresa is ranked 871st among girls in 2024 (310 births). Its best rank was 18th, in 1961–1963.
- Rank in 2024
- #871down 27 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3100.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 196118,909 births
- Best rank
- #18first in 1961
- Since 1880
- 416,911people given the name
The story in the numbers
415,746 girls have been named Teresa in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 18,909 births — 0.94% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 310 births in 2024, against 18,909 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 37%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 34 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,165 boys have also been given it, 0.28% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Teresa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 769 | |
| 1890s | 1,587 | |
| 1900s | 1,889 | |
| 1910s | 5,194 | |
| 1920s | 9,228 | |
| 1930s | 7,648 | |
| 1940s | 19,330 | |
| 1950s | 114,284 | |
| 1960s | 151,790 | |
| 1970s | 56,038 | |
| 1980s | 23,410 | |
| 1990s | 11,952 | |
| 2000s | 6,755 | |
| 2010s | 4,214 | |
| 2020s | 1,658 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Teresa was the 18th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1961 were Mary, Lisa, Susan, Linda and Karen. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Teresa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tamapeak 1959
- Teressapeak 1960
- Robinpeak 1961
- Lorrypeak 1960
- Taripeak 1959
- Merripeak 1963
- Lauriepeak 1962
- Beckypeak 1959
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.