Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Teresia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,133
- 0 boys · 1,133 girls
- Most popular year
- 1956
- 68 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 7 in 1994. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 68 in 1956. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,248 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Teresia’s family of names
In Latin usage, Teresia has a later derivative in Teresa. In Latin usage, Teresia has a conventional equivalent in the German form Theresa. In Swedish usage, Teresia has a conventional equivalent in the English form Teresa.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Teresia has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Spanish roots to each of them.
3 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 15
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Teresia
- Teresia Mbaika MalokweKenyan environmentalist & Politician-State Department for Devolutionborn 1986
- Teresia TeaiwaKiribati poet (1968–2017)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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