Terisa
Terisa was last recorded in 2005, when 6 babies were given it; 1,030 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terisa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,272, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 1968, the peak
Terisa peaked in 1968, when 50 girls were given it, #1,645 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #16,272 | 3.2 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,400 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,703 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,700 | 6.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,566 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,456 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,397 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,939 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,111 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,404 | 6.0 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 8 | #9,169 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,305 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,563 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,428 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,953 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,428 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,336 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,945 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,133 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,145 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,499 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,218 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,338 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,116 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,418 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,336 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,054 | 14.5 |
| 1971 | 33 | #2,369 | 19.8 |
| 1970 | 44 | #1,949 | 25.2 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,205 | 20.2 |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,645 | 30.5 |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,943 | 22.4 |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,879 | 22.5 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,150 | 17.6 |
| 1964 | 46 | #1,727 | 24.3 |
| 1963 | 32 | #2,126 | 16.6 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,205 | 15.3 |
| 1961 | 38 | #1,890 | 18.8 |
| 1960 | 33 | #2,009 | 16.3 |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,912 | 17.3 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,064 | 14.9 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,113 | 13.7 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,615 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,544 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,687 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,506 | 10.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,089 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,682 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,280 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,588 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,189 | 3.5 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,373 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Terisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Terisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Terisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terisa, and how old are they?
An estimated 916 Americans named Terisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 48 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,149 people named Terisa (1,145 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 949 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 440,190 babies since 1880, Terisa is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 296 babies recorded by SSA was a Terisa (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 Terisa
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 Terisa and names like it
- Compare Terisa and TeresaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTerisa peaked in 1968.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terisa since 1910.
- The top names of 1968The year the most babies were named Terisa.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Terisa alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.