Given name & surname
Terese
Terese is a feminine given name. It is used in Swedish.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Terese 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 1889. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Terese through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6,503
- 0 boys · 6,503 girls
- Most popular year
- 1957
- 268 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 8 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 268 in 1957. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,838 as a first name in 2020; 102 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Terese’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Terese has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Teresa. In German usage, Terese has a related form in Theresa.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Terese has relatives in 3 languages.
2 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
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 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Teresaalso known as · Polish, Basque
- Thereseequivalent
- Terezaequivalent
- Teresequivalent
- Theresequivalent
- Theresiaequivalent
- Teresiaequivalent
- Têrêsaequivalent
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People named Terese
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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