Teresita
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Teresita is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 97th most common given name. Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Teresa.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 386(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 753
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 386 (inferred from the name graph)
≈280,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a diminutive of the female given name Teresa
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Teresita 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #97 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 386 | 178K | Teresita | 110 |
| CN China | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Teresita | 5 |
| US United States | — | 17,139 | 1 in 19K | 17K | Teresita | 272 |
| AR Argentina | #366 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 28 | Teresita | 78 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Teresita | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | #60 | 4,497 | 1 in 753 | 4.5K | Teresita | 37 |
| CR Costa Rica | #118 | 2,396 | 1 in 2.1K | 2.4K | Teresita | 35 |
| SM San Marino | #502 | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Teresita | 3 |
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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Teresita is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Diminutivo de Teresa.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In German, weibl. Vom., spanische Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Cebuano, a diminutive of the female given name Teresa, from Spanish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Teresa Urreab. 1873MXnot in their usual nameMexican revolutionary
- Teresita Asprellab. 1904ARArgentinian singer
- Ligia Gargallob. 1933CLnot in their usual namePeruvian-Chilean researcher
- Teresita de Castrob. 1948PHChief Justice of the Philippines in 2018
- Teresita Abundob. 1949PHFilipino female model
- Teresita Reyesb. 1950CLChilean actor
- Teresita Quintelab. 1950ARArgentine politician
- Teresita Caraveob. 1961MXMexican politician
- Teresita Fernándezb. 1968USAmerican installation artist, sculptor and photographer (born 1968)
- Teresita Colladob. 1971GTGuatemalan race walker
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17K | #1,763 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4.5K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4.5K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2.4K | #306 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 28 | #1,378 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 25 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 20 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 20 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15 | #1,763 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1971 | 2 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2003 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Teresita mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Teresa Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Teresita a male or female name?
- Teresita 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.
- What are other forms of the name Teresita?
- In the etymology graph, Teresa, Terry and Theresa are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Teresita have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 283 thousand people named Teresita in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled teresita.
- How common is the name Teresita?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,139 people named Teresita in 2020, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Teresita compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Teresita is the 97th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/teresitaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Teresita” — the 97th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.