Teresa is the Spanish and Portuguese form of Theresa, a name of unknown origin and meaning. It is possibly Greek, derived from ‘theros’ meaning ‘summer’.
Teresa is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Teresa isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Teresa ranks 652. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Teresa. In total, there are currently 405,686 people – children, adults and seniors – named Teresa living in the United States, which is approximately 0.12 % of the entire population.
Teresa is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their child Teresa. This means that several girls named Teresa have witnessed significant events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Teresa has reached its best rank of #18 multiple times, most recently in 1963. The name has also been in the top 100 for many years. This makes Teresa one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Teresa was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Teresa is one of them. However, Teresa is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Tennessee seem to particularly fancy this name – the 14,820 women called Teresa who live here are 0,464% of all female residents and push their name up to #37, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Tennessee.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. Because: 6.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Teresa is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all girls' names that begin with a T, this first letter is thus much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the girls’ names starting with T is Teresa.
If your name is Teresa and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Teresa, you can simply say:
Tiger
Elephant
Rocket
Elephant
Sun
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Teresa
Teresa
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
E
R
E
S
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
E
R
E
S
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Teresa sounds like this:
