# Teresita (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/teresita/  
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 | Spanish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,376 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 3,376 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Spanish Teresita, from Teresa + -ita.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | 7,746 |
| 2012 | 16 | 7,770 |
| 2013 | 7 | 14,468 |
| 2014 | 15 | 8,022 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11,755 |
| 2016 | 12 | 9,377 |
| 2017 | 15 | 7,807 |
| 2018 | 12 | 9,105 |
| 2019 | 5 | 17,736 |
| 2020 | 17 | 6,899 |
| 2021 | 16 | 7,232 |
| 2022 | 16 | 7,257 |
| 2023 | 11 | 9,548 |
| 2024 | 13 | 8,390 |
| 2025 | 10 | 10,046 |

## People named Teresita

- Teresita de Castro, Chief Justice of the Philippines in 2018
- Teresita Castillo, Filipino Marian apparition viewer (1927–2016)

## 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.