Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Teres isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1957. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Teres through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 45
- 0 boys · 45 girls
- Most popular year
- 1957
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1975. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 292 as a first name in 2020; 102 as a surname in 2010.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Teres’s family of names
In English usage, Teres has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Τήρης. In Greek usage, Teres as a surname is a transliteration of Τέρες.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
If you love Teres, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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Tami
Tami is a feminine given name from Japanese.
>99% girls
Tamera
“date palm”
>99% girls
Therese
“a harvester”
>99% girls
Sheryl
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>99% girls
Meryl
“resembling a blackbird” · “of the shining sea”
>99% girls
Lis
“resembling a rising salmon” · “God is my oath”
>99% girls