Thèrese

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Thèrese is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Spain it is the 32nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From French Thérèse.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 281(measured from records)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 218as Teresa
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 277as Teresa

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Thèrese itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

402,455 named Teresa, 2020

#205 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
489 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 281 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TeresaLatin(measured from records)
ԹերեզաArmenian(measured from records)
טרסהHebrew(measured from records)
ተሬሳEthiopic(measured from records)
ΤερεζαGreek(measured from records)
เทเรซ่าThai(measured from records)
თერეზაGeorgian(measured from records)
테레자Hangul(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Teresa in US United States, ES Spain, SV El Salvador and 2 more, Tereza in BR Brazil, טרסה in PL Poland and Therese in SE Sweden.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From French Thérèse.

Sources 4

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Thèrese counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Thèrese is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#457402,455as Teresa1 in 827402KTeresa489
PL Poland—312,053as Teresa1 in 123312Kטרסה2
CZ Czechia—167,384as Tereza1 in 64167K—1
BR Brazil#77161,966as Tereza1 in 1.3K220KTereza177
IT Italy#105≈140,000 est.≈1 in 450270Teresa187
ES Spain#3299,940as Teresa1 in 500108KTeresa259
PT Portugal#41≈47,000 est.≈1 in 218listedTeresa174
SE Sweden#3736,2551 in 28136KTherese134
SV El Salvador#65≈23,000 est.≈1 in 277—Teresa49

402,455 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Thèrese is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Greek given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, Sweden, Norway

    Also written Therese, Thérèse, Therése, Thérése, Τερεζ

  • Malagasy given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Madagascar, United States, Philippines, Canada

    Also written Therese, Therèse

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Thèrese under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Thèrese mean, and where does it come from?
From French Thérèse. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
Is Thèrese a male or female name?
Thèrese is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Thèrese have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 402 thousand people named Teresa, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Thèrese most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thèrese is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 281 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Thèrese?
In Sweden, the national register counted 36,255 people named Thèrese, about 1 in 281 residents.
How common is Thèrese compared with other names?
In the United States, Thèrese is the 457th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Thèrese” — the 457th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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