Therésa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ðɝeɪsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Therésa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Czechia it is the 28th most common given name. Recorded meaning: First used in Spain, supposedly derived from Latin Thēra, from Ancient Greek Θήρᾱ (Thḗrā), name of a city in Santorini, Greece.
- IEIreland≈1 in 670(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.2K
- CZCzechia1 in 64as Tereza
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 Therésa 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)
- #311 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 587 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 670 (inferred from the name graph)
402,455 named Teresa, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Theresa in US United States, NG Nigeria, SE Sweden and 1 more, Teresa in PL Poland, ES Spain, EC Ecuador and Tereza in CZ Czechia.
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)
- LatinThēra(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΘήρᾱThḗrā(measured from records)
First used in Spain, supposedly derived from Latin Thēra, from Ancient Greek Θήρᾱ (Thḗrā), name of a city in Santorini, Greece.
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Therésa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #140 | 402,455as Teresa | 1 in 827 | 402K | Theresa | 587 |
| PL Poland | #31 | 312,053as Teresa | 1 in 123 | 312K | Teresa | 163 |
| NG Nigeria | #270 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Theresa | 95 |
| CZ Czechia | #28 | 167,384as Tereza | 1 in 64 | 167K | Tereza | 175 |
| BR Brazil | — | 161,966as Tereza | 1 in 1.3K | 220K | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 99,940as Teresa | 1 in 500 | 108K | Teresa | 68 |
| SE Sweden | #663 | 36,255as Therese | 1 in 281 | 36K | Theresa | 65 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 34,656as Teresa | 1 in 488 | 35K | Teresa | 10 |
| IE Ireland | #104 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 670 | — | Theresa | 118 |
402,455 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling teresa. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); MVČR — living population register 2017; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 65 | #11,519 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 30 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 30 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 30 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 29 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Therésa mean, and where does it come from?
- First used in Spain, supposedly derived from Latin Thēra, from Ancient Greek Θήρᾱ (Thḗrā), name of a city in Santorini, Greece. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Therésa?
- A machine transcription gives /ðɝeɪsə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Therésa a male or female name?
- Therésa 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 Therésa 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.
- How common is the name Therésa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 402,455 people named Teresa in 2020, about 1 in 827 residents.
- How common is Therésa compared with other names?
- In the United States, Therésa is the 140th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ther%C3%A9saThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Therésa” — the 140th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.