Teresia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Teresia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 3K
- SESweden1 in 1.4K
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
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 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Teresia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #189 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Teresia | 52 |
| TZ Tanzania | #373 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 1 | Teresia | 17 |
| SE Sweden | — | 7,459 | 1 in 1.4K | 7.5K | Teresia | 17 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Teresia | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,248 | 1 in 267K | 1.2K | Teresia | 112 |
| FI Finland | — | 946 | 1 in 5.9K | 1.8K | — | 2 |
| NA Namibia | #178 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | 3 | Teresia | 2 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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)
Teresia is also recorded in one other lexicon, 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, equivalent to English Teresa, via the German form Theresia
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)
- Teresia Sampsoniab. 1589ITnoblewoman of the Safavid Empire of Iran
- Alfhild Agrellb. 1849SEnot in their usual nameSwedish writer and playwright (1849–1923)
- Elsa Anderssonb. 1897SEnot in their usual nameSweden's first woman aviator and stunt parachutist (1897–1922)
- Margit Andeliusb. 1897SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress (1897–1986)
- Infanta Beatriz of Spainb. 1909ESnot in their usual nameSpanish infanta, daughter of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1909–2002)
- Atti Johanssonb. 1917SEnot in their usual nameSwedish artist
- Lena T. Hanssonb. 1955SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
- Teresia Teaiwab. 1968USKiribati poet (1968–2017)
- Frida Nordstrandb. 1980SEnot in their usual nameSwedish sports journalist
- Teresia Mbaika Malokweb. 1986KEKenyan environmentalist & Politician-State Department for Devolution
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 34 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 1 | #12 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Teresia a male or female name?
- Teresia 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 Teresia?
- In the etymology graph, Teresa, Theresa and Terri are forms of the same name in other languages; Tessan is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Teresia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Teresia in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled teresia.
- How common is the name Teresia?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 7,459 people named Teresia, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Teresia compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Teresia is the 189th most common given name of 56,552 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/teresiaThe 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, “Teresia” — the 189th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.