Teret
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete spelling of terete (“round”)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Teret is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guatemala than in any other country.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 79K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 5.1M
- USUnited States≈1 in 11M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Guatemala (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
≈220 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Tërët in MX Mexico.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Obsolete spelling of terete (“round”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Teret 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GT Guatemala | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 79K | Teret | 8 |
| US United States | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 11M | Teret | 11 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | Teret | 3 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | Tërët | 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.
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)
Teret is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, third-person singular future active indicative of terō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In se, to be too hard on, to exact too much on
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, accusative singular of tér
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, burden
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)
- Ray Teretb. 1941GBBritish DJ (1941–2021)
- Stephen TeretUSAmerican epidemiologist
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 2 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Teret mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete spelling of terete (“round”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Teret have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 216 people named Teret in Guatemala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled teret.
- How common is the name Teret?
- Mondonomo estimates about 220 people in Guatemala have Teret as their first surname, about 1 in 79 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/teretThe 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, “Teret”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.