Teresina

loc · Latin script

Meaning: weibl. Vom., italienische Koseform von Teresa (

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

Teresina is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil
  • PTPortugal
  • COColombia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
52 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in German

weibl. Vom., italienische Koseform von Teresa (

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Where in the world(measured from records)

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

Where Teresina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—1.7KTeresina42
PT Portugal—listedTeresina11
MX Mexico——Teresina20
CO Colombia——Teresina11
US United States—307—52
ES Spain—82—14
CR Costa Rica—22—4

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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the portuguese-names-barbosa-1990 register. 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)

Teresina is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States

    Also written Teresiña

  • French name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Térésina, Térèsina

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Terešina

  • Croatian given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Also written Terezina, Terežina, Terešina, Terezína, Терезина

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Terešina

38 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Teresina 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 Italian, a simplified form of poker in which the cards may not be changed

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Tarasīne, Rēzeknes pieteka

    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)

18001850190019502000Teresina Brambilla, b. 1845Theresina Gessner, b. 1865Teresina Tua, b. 1866Teresina Bontempi, b. 1883Teresina Degan, b. 1926Teresina Cirio, b. 1940Teresina Marsico, b. 1976

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 26 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Teresina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.7K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.7K#5,641
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19801.7K—
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—1.7K#3,151
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.7K#6,686
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19701.5K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19601.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1950618—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)1950527—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)1940371—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)1960369—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020307#28,942

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

What does the name Teresina mean?
Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., italienische Koseform von Teresa (
In which country does Teresina have the most bearers?
Teresina is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled teresina.

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Teresina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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