Terresa
Terresa was last recorded in 2004, when 5 babies were given it; 1,571 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Terresa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 54 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terresa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terresa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,585, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
73 babies in 1962, the peak
Terresa peaked in 1962, when 73 girls were given it, #1,302 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #18,585 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,403 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,090 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,253 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,567 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,297 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,688 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,997 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,606 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,583 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 12 | #6,304 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,085 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 12 | #6,010 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,516 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,125 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,181 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,522 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,224 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,434 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,913 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,191 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,995 | 17.1 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,931 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,678 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,346 | 22.6 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,349 | 21.0 |
| 1971 | 47 | #1,873 | 28.2 |
| 1970 | 57 | #1,651 | 32.6 |
| 1969 | 54 | #1,646 | 32.0 |
| 1968 | 55 | #1,558 | 33.5 |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,615 | 30.3 |
| 1966 | 58 | #1,461 | 34.3 |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,620 | 27.8 |
| 1964 | 69 | #1,358 | 36.4 |
| 1963 | 63 | #1,415 | 32.7 |
| 1962 | 73 | #1,302 | 37.1 |
| 1961 | 71 | #1,325 | 35.2 |
| 1960 | 72 | #1,298 | 35.6 |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,535 | 25.2 |
| 1958 | 53 | #1,477 | 26.3 |
| 1957 | 62 | #1,355 | 30.3 |
| 1956 | 57 | #1,396 | 28.4 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,798 | 17.9 |
| 1954 | 42 | #1,576 | 21.6 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,826 | 16.5 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,858 | 16.2 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,964 | 14.4 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,329 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,269 | 11.7 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,119 | 13.0 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,210 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,378 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,503 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,521 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Terresa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Terresa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Terresa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terresa, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 1,571 Americans ever recorded as Terresa. The median Terresa alive today is 61 years old; half are between 54 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 1,737 people named Terresa (1,737 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,423 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 661 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 528 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 154 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10 |
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).
How common is the spelling Terresa?
Terresa is a less common spelling of Teresa: SSA has recorded 1,571 Terresa and 417,209 Teresa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 440,190 babies since 1880, Terresa is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 296 babies recorded by SSA was a Terresa (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 Terresa
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 Terresa and names like it
- Compare Terresa and TeresaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTerresa peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terresa since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Terresa.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Terresa alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.