Tereza
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 40 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/teɾezɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Tereza is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 36th most common given name. Tereza is also written Թերեզա in Armenian, טרסה in Hebrew and ተሬሳ in Ethiopic.
- CZCzechia1 in 64(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.3K
- GRGreece≈1 in 8.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tereza itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #205 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 489 (measured from records)
- 1 in 64 (inferred from the name graph)
≈460,000 named Teresa, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Tereza in other scripts: Latin, Armenian, Hebrew and 5 more
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Teresa in MX Mexico, US United States, SV El Salvador and 1 more, טרסה in PL Poland and Therese in SE Sweden.
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.
How to pronounce Tereza
- Portuguese:/teɾezɐ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Nordic Names
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tereza 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #36 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 286 | 2.4K | Teresa | 239 |
| US United States | #457 | 402,455as Teresa | 1 in 827 | 402K | Teresa | 489 |
| PL Poland | — | 312,053as Teresa | 1 in 123 | 312K | טרסה | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 167,384 | 1 in 64 | 167K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | #77 | 161,966 | 1 in 1.3K | 220K | Tereza | 177 |
| PT Portugal | #41 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 174 | listed | Teresa | 174 |
| SE Sweden | #37 | 36,255as Therese | 1 in 281 | 36K | Therese | 134 |
| SV El Salvador | #65 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 268 | — | Teresa | 49 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the pt-irn-lista-nomes 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Tereza 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 Serbo-Croatian, a female given name; Theresa, Teresa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Divi vadi, ko pievieno elektrotīklam, lai kādu spīdzinātu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Īssavienojums
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)- Theresa Russellb. 1957USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Tereza Marinovab. 1977BGBulgarian long jumper and triple jumper
- Tereza Kerndlováb. 1986CZCzech singer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)74 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 40 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Tereza a male or female name?
- Tereza is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Poland (dane.gov.pl) and Spain (INE), among others.
- What are other forms of the name Tereza?
- In the etymology graph, Teresa, Theresa and Terri are forms of the same name in other languages; Terezinha and Teresinha are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Tereza?
- In Portuguese /teɾezɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Tereza?
- Mondonomo estimates about 457 thousand people named Teresa in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Poland, Czechia and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Tereza most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tereza is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 64 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tereza?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 167,384 people named Tereza, about 1 in 64 residents.
- How common is Tereza compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Tereza is the 36th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tereza?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/terezaThe 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, “Tereza” — ranked 36th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.