Therese
Therese is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 85 births. Its best rank was 220th, in 1927.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 850.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19591,211 births
- Best rank
- #220in 1927
- Since 1880
- 35,507people given the name
The story in the numbers
35,507 girls have been named Therese in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 1,211 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1950s alone account for 26%. It has spent 103 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Therese | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 102 | |
| 1890s | 204 | |
| 1900s | 282 | |
| 1910s | 899 | |
| 1920s | 4,501 | |
| 1930s | 3,227 | |
| 1940s | 3,165 | |
| 1950s | 9,333 | |
| 1960s | 7,583 | |
| 1970s | 1,944 | |
| 1980s | 1,430 | |
| 1990s | 1,052 | |
| 2000s | 846 | |
| 2010s | 608 | |
| 2020s | 331 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Therese was the 252nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1959 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Therese
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ramonapeak 1928
- Theresapeak 1961
- Romonapeak 1955
- Vernitapeak 1961
- Litapeak 1960
- Monapeak 1957
- Lornapeak 1957
- Anitapeak 1957
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.