# Terese (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/terese/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,503 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 6,503 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 10 | 9,415 |
| 2000 | 18 | 6,189 |
| 2001 | 12 | 8,705 |
| 2002 | 16 | 7,020 |
| 2003 | 9 | 11,251 |
| 2004 | 10 | 10,623 |
| 2005 | 11 | 10,074 |
| 2006 | 7 | 15,020 |
| 2007 | 11 | 10,765 |
| 2008 | 8 | 13,717 |
| 2009 | 6 | 17,112 |
| 2011 | 6 | 16,591 |
| 2016 | 7 | 14,202 |
| 2018 | 5 | 17,898 |
| 2020 | 8 | 12,045 |

## People named Terese

- Julie Sweet, American business executive and attorney

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.