Theressa
Theressa was last recorded in 2008, when 7 babies were given it; 2,145 Americans have been recorded with it between 1886 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Theressa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (59% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 52 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Theressa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Theressa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,261, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
60 babies in 1961, the peak
Theressa peaked in 1961, when 60 girls were given it, #1,449 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #15,261 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,463 | 3.1 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,935 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,732 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,179 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,035 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,749 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,523 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,258 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,567 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 7 | #11,697 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,021 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,190 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,441 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,696 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,074 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,592 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,707 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,517 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,754 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,939 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,427 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,367 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,310 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,148 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,494 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,358 | 15.0 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,178 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,500 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,097 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 23 | #3,011 | 15.8 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,588 | 18.4 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,947 | 14.4 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,238 | 20.6 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,206 | 20.2 |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,882 | 25.0 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,977 | 21.8 |
| 1966 | 34 | #2,020 | 20.1 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,987 | 19.8 |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,107 | 17.4 |
| 1963 | 51 | #1,595 | 26.5 |
| 1962 | 42 | #1,779 | 21.4 |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,449 | 29.7 |
| 1960 | 38 | #1,851 | 18.8 |
| 1959 | 53 | #1,495 | 26.2 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,729 | 19.9 |
| 1957 | 50 | #1,527 | 24.5 |
| 1956 | 47 | #1,556 | 23.4 |
| 1955 | 46 | #1,511 | 23.5 |
| 1954 | 46 | #1,500 | 23.7 |
| 1953 | 36 | #1,668 | 19.1 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,706 | 18.3 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,697 | 18.3 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,830 | 16.3 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,803 | 17.0 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,770 | 17.1 |
| 1947 | 23 | #2,084 | 13.0 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,386 | 10.8 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,730 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,191 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,943 | 15.1 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,796 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,948 | 15.7 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,956 | 15.7 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,405 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,328 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,778 | 18.8 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,635 | 21.1 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,294 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,691 | 20.1 |
| 1933 | 16 | #2,040 | 15.9 |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,630 | 21.6 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,677 | 20.7 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,563 | 23.1 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,173 | 14.3 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,827 | 19.1 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,160 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,991 | 16.9 |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,465 | 26.3 |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,713 | 20.8 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,590 | 23.2 |
| 1922 | 20 | #2,021 | 16.7 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,618 | 22.7 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,069 | 15.9 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,558 | 23.9 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,799 | 19.0 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,548 | 23.1 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,479 | 24.9 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,668 | 21.3 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,845 | 10.5 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,665 | 22.4 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,967 | 17.9 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,942 | 19.1 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,120 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,210 | 37.4 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,534 | 26.9 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,279 | 34.5 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,680 | 24.0 |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,060 | 19.1 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,423 | 30.3 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,325 | 33.4 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,417 | 30.0 |
| 1899 | 11 | #1,024 | 47.2 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,490 | 27.1 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,687 | 22.4 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,435 | 28.3 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,267 | 34.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Theressa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Theressa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Theressa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Theressa, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 59% of the 2,145 Americans ever recorded as Theressa. The median Theressa alive today is 63 years old; half are between 52 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 1,541 people named Theressa (1,539 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,387 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 90 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 582 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 373 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 158 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 50 |
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 Theressa?
Theressa is a less common spelling of Theresa: SSA has recorded 2,145 Theressa and 405,831 Theresa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 450,655 babies since 1880, Theressa is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 215 babies recorded by SSA was a Theressa (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 Theressa
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 Theressa and names like it
- Compare Theressa and TheresaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTheressa peaked in 1961.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Theressa since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Theressa.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Theressa alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.