Tereso — boys' name
140 babies named Tereso in U.S. Social Security records since 1917, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
22% of everyone ever named Tereso was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Tereso in 1988 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tereso
The Social Security Administration has registered 140 babies named Tereso between 1917 and 2002, spanning 86 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tereso currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2002. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tereso performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 31 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Tereso shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 26 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tereso in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tereso 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 140 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.
Tereso at a glance
Last recorded 2002Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tereso popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2002–1917
- Peak year (1988)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 86 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2002.
140 total births across 86 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1988 with 8 births in a single year.
Tereso by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 31 births that decade — 22% of Tereso's all-time total
Tereso decade highlights
- Peak decade 31 births
- Runner-up 23 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Tereso's strongest decade
31 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 22% of all-time use.
Tereso by state
Where Tereso concentrates geographically — total births since 1917
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 26 | 18.6% |
26 of 140 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 18.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 18.6% 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, 1917–2002 (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.