Given name
Tereza
Tereza is a feminine given name. It is used in Czech and Serbo-Croatian.
Original SpanishTeresa
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1929. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tereza through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 797
- 0 boys · 797 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,766 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +27%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,766 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 27.0% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 22 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,011 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.
Tereza’s family of names
In Breton usage, Tereza has a diminutive in Terezaig. In Czech usage, Tereza has a conventional equivalent in the English form Teresa. In Czech usage, Tereza has a conventional equivalent in the English form Theresa.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Tereza has relatives in 12 languages. Lines run from its Spanish roots to each of them.
Spanishwhere Tereza comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 5
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 16
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Tereza
- Tereza KesovijaCroatian pop singerborn 1938
- Tereza KerndlováCzech singerborn 1986
- Tereza MarinovaBulgarian long jumper and triple jumperborn 1977
- Tereza MihalíkováSlovak tennis playerborn 1998
- Tereza VoborníkováCzech biathleteborn 2000
- Tereza MartincováCzech female tennis playerborn 1994
- Tereza SmitkováCzech tennis playerborn 1994
- Tereza ValentováCzech tennis playerborn 2007
- Tereza FajksováBeauty pageant winnerborn 1989
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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