Given name
Theres
Theres is a feminine given name from French. It is used in German.
Original FrenchThérèse
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Theres through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 23
- 0 boys · 23 girls
- Most popular year
- 1957
- 7 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 7 in 1957. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 294 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.
Theres’s family of names
In German usage, Theres has a conventional equivalent in the English form Teresa. In German usage, Theres was borrowed from the French form Thérèse.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
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.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Theres
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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