Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Teresina 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 1908. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Teresina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 163
- 0 boys · 163 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 9 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 1991. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 308 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.
Teresina’s family of names
In Italian usage, Teresina has a conventional equivalent in the German form Theresa.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Teresina
- Teresina TuaItalian violinist (1866–1956)
- Teresina BrambillaItalian soprano (1845–1921)
- Teresina BontempiSwiss writer (1883-1968)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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