Terese — girls' name

What the Data Says About Terese

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,502 babies named Terese between 1889 and 2020, spanning 132 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Terese currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 268 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Terese performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 2,080 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Terese shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 642 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Terese in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Terese in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,502 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.