Teresea — girls' name
460 babies named Teresea in U.S. Social Security records since 1948, with the highest year being 1961. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Teresea was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Teresea in 1961 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Teresea
The Social Security Administration has registered 460 babies named Teresea between 1948 and 1983, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Teresea currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1983. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 27 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Teresea performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 219 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Teresea shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Teresea in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Teresea 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 460 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.
Teresea at a glance
Last recorded 1983Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Teresea popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1983–1948
- Peak year (1961)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 36 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1983.
460 total births across 36 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1961 with 27 births in a single year.
Teresea by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 219 births that decade — 48% of Teresea's all-time total
Teresea decade highlights
- Peak decade 219 births
- Runner-up 145 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Teresea's strongest decade
219 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Teresea by state
Where Teresea concentrates geographically — total births since 1948
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Tennessee | | 6 | 1.3% |
6 of 460 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Tennessee 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Tennessee accounts for 1.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1948–1983 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.