Terese
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Terese is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 57K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 63K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 313 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
6,109 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Teresė in LT Lithuania.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 2
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Terese 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #389 | 6,109 | 1 in 1.7K | 6.1K | Terese | 55 |
| US United States | — | 5,838 | 1 in 57K | 5.8K | Terese | 313 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 54K | listed | Terese | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 63K | listed | Terese | 73 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 301K | — | Terese | 8 |
| NO Norway | #725 | 708 | 1 in 7.7K | 2.6K | Terese | 55 |
| FI Finland | — | 620 | 1 in 9K | 878 | Terese | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 399 | 1 in 15K | 399 | Terese | 59 |
| LT Lithuania | #440 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | listed | Teresė | 22 |
6,109 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Terese is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, a female given name, a less common spelling of Therese
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Terese Berceaub. 1950USAmerican politician (born 1950)
- Anna-Lena Bergelinb. 1959SEnot in their usual nameSwedish writer, comedian, singer and actress
- Terese Nielsenb. 1966USAmerican artist (1966-)
- Julie Sweetb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican business executive and attorney
- Natali Morrisb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican podcaster, writer, television/cyber journalist
- Terese Pedersenb. 1980NONorwegian handball player
- Lise Nordinb. 1982SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
- Cecilie Myrsethb. 1984NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian politician
- Nanna Blondellb. 1986SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
- Terese Pencak SchwartzDEAmerican writer
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 48 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 105 | #154,907 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 102 | #154,755 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Is Terese a male or female name?
- Terese 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 Terese?
- In the etymology graph, Teresa, Theresa and Terri are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Terese have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Terese, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled terese.
- Where is Terese most common?
- Terese is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Terese?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 6,109 people named Terese, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Terese compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Terese is the 389th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Terese?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tereseThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Terese” — the 389th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.