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Girl's name · #1559 in the US (2025) · Retro
Theresa reached its best rank, #32, in 1956 and ranked #1559 in 2025. Roughly 405,000 girls have been named Theresa since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 13 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#39 in Austria (2025) · #946 in Italy (2024) · #1,001 in Switzerland (2025) · #1,429 in Canada (2025) · #1,454 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,522 in Sweden (2025) · #7,197 in France (2025) · #631 in Ireland (2024) · #434 in N. Ireland (2018) · #12,247 in Ecuador (2018) · #413 in New Zealand (2013) · #555 in Norway (2013) and 5 more.
Among 846 notable people named Theresa:
Scientists & scholars appear 1.25× more often than among typical names — e.g. Theresa Goell, American archaeologist (1901–1985).
Together with its spelling variant Teresa (#911), Theresa would rank around #664 with about 430 births last year — the newborns split about 68/32 between Teresa and Theresa.
About 76 girls a year are given Tracy as their full name.
Similar names: Teresa · Cindy · Terra · Janessa · Denise · Gina
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