Given name & surname
Tereska
Tereska is a feminine given name from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Polish.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1965. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tereska through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 17
- 0 boys · 17 girls
- Most popular year
- 1965
- 12 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 1970. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1965. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include a sample rank of No. 53,858 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tereska’s family of names
In Polish usage, Tereska is a diminutive of Teresa.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Tereska
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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