Theresa is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Theresa is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,117 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,116 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In total, there are currently 385,546 people – children, adults and seniors – named Theresa living in the United States, which is approximately 0.12 % of the entire population.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Theresa is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Theresa for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Theresa is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Theresa is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 33 Theresa easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1956.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Theresa was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Theresa. Because: There are women and girls named Theresa in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Theresa is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in New York, where Theresa ranks on place 38. The greatest chance of meeting Theresa, however, is in Vermont, where one in 180 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 400 women and girls and in Utah, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 2,078 women and girls for their name before you once get Theresa as an answer.
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 seven letters, the name Theresa has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Theresa 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 Theresa, you can simply say:
Tiger
Hat
Elephant
Rocket
Elephant
Sun
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Theresa
Theresa
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
H
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
H
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. Theresa sounds like this:
