Terese
Terese was last recorded in 2020, when 8 babies were given it; 6,503 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,030 Americans named Terese and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 53 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terese by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Terese mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Terese is “a female given name, a less common spelling of Therese”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Terese?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,040, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
268 babies in 1957, the peak
Terese peaked in 1957, when 268 girls were given it, #590 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 8 | #12,040 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,893 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,197 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,583 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,106 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,712 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,761 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,015 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,069 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,617 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 9 | #11,245 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 16 | #7,014 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,698 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,183 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,408 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 29 | #4,012 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,208 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,041 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,338 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,826 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,864 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,135 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,085 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,065 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,234 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,974 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,714 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,337 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,540 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,681 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 55 | #1,903 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 56 | #1,918 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,697 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,603 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 62 | #1,765 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,089 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,059 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 67 | #1,533 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 67 | #1,525 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 59 | #1,615 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 69 | #1,430 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 75 | #1,351 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 89 | #1,252 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 115 | #1,067 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 115 | #1,018 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 106 | #1,011 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 114 | #957 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 141 | #842 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 179 | #750 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 201 | #735 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 221 | #677 | 0.11 |
| 1962 | 236 | #663 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 267 | #627 | 0.13 |
| 1960 | 242 | #652 | 0.12 |
| 1959 | 258 | #621 | 0.13 |
| 1958 | 228 | #658 | 0.11 |
| 1957 | 268 | #590 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 257 | #590 | 0.13 |
| 1955 | 256 | #570 | 0.13 |
| 1954 | 233 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1953 | 178 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 158 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1951 | 146 | #723 | 0.08 |
| 1950 | 98 | #898 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 72 | #1,062 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 61 | #1,153 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 53 | #1,251 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,357 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,818 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,517 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,586 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,037 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,690 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,402 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,786 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,937 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,531 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,794 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,839 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,646 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,713 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,515 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,586 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,753 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 41 | #1,204 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 38 | #1,301 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 41 | #1,218 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,438 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,300 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,895 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,371 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,273 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,075 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,625 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,486 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,858 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,811 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 16 | #2,039 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,437 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,593 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,334 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,823 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,374 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,497 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,188 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,204 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,643 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,770 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,813 | 0.02 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,787 | 0.02 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,513 | 0.03 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,462 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Terese a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Terese has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 114 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Terese: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terese, and how old are they?
5,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 6,503 Americans ever recorded as Terese. The median Terese alive today is 64 years old; half are between 53 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 5,838 people named Terese (5,817 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,356 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 120 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,790 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,310 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 608 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 171 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 20 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Terese born?
The states with the most babies named Terese are Illinois, New York and California, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 642 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New York | 549 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 522 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 377 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Wisconsin | 324 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Minnesota | 307 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Ohio | 262 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 216 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 187 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 74 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Terese is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Terese is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Terese with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 440,190 babies since 1880, Terese is the second most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 296 babies recorded by SSA was a Terese (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Terese
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Terese and names like it
- Compare Terese and TeresaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sTerese peaked in 1957.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terese since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Terese: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Terese.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Terese alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.