Meaning and history
Teresa is a form of Theresa used in several languages. It was borne by Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th-century Spanish nun who reformed the Carmelite monasteries and wrote several spiritual books, and by the Albanian missionary Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910–1997), better known as Mother Teresa, who worked with the poor in India. Mother Teresa chose the name in honour of the French saint Thérèse of Lisieux, patron of missionaries.
20062006: 566 births, rank #533
2007: 563 births, rank #546
2008: 534 births, rank #578
2009: 453 births, rank #653
2010: 412 births, rank #692
20112011: 544 births, rank #533
2012: 472 births, rank #607
2013: 437 births, rank #647
2014: 391 births, rank #716
2015: 429 births, rank #664
20162016: 437 births, rank #668
2017: 397 births, rank #722
2018: 347 births, rank #786
2019: 349 births, rank #794
2020: 366 births, rank #745
20212021: 342 births, rank #815
2022: 320 births, rank #867
2023: 322 births, rank #843
2024: 314 births, rank #860
20252025: 291 births, rank #908
Teresa moved from #864 to #911 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1961, with 18,909 births.