Teressa
Teressa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 617th, in 1960.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1960266 births
- Best rank
- #617in 1960
- Since 1880
- 6,475people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,475 girls have been named Teressa in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 266 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 266 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1964, and the 1960s alone account for 34%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Teressa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 15 | |
| 1900s | 20 | |
| 1910s | 95 | |
| 1920s | 123 | |
| 1930s | 97 | |
| 1940s | 254 | |
| 1950s | 1,480 | |
| 1960s | 2,229 | |
| 1970s | 1,080 | |
| 1980s | 509 | |
| 1990s | 345 | |
| 2000s | 168 | |
| 2010s | 44 | |
| 2020s | 11 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Teressa was the 617th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1960 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Teressa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bethpeak 1961
- Terresapeak 1962
- Teresapeak 1961
- Lorypeak 1961
- Migdaliapeak 1961
- Tereasapeak 1964
- Teripeak 1960
- Carlapeak 1962
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.