# Therese (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/therese/  
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 | 35,595 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 35,590 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 113, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 47 | 3,450 |
| 2012 | 51 | 3,265 |
| 2013 | 49 | 3,310 |
| 2014 | 73 | 2,494 |
| 2015 | 63 | 2,807 |
| 2016 | 79 | 2,382 |
| 2017 | 63 | 2,739 |
| 2018 | 68 | 2,582 |
| 2019 | 45 | 3,498 |
| 2020 | 54 | 3,011 |
| 2021 | 53 | 3,108 |
| 2022 | 68 | 2,603 |
| 2023 | 71 | 2,513 |
| 2024 | 87 | 2,197 |
| 2025 | 79 | 2,324 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 5 | 4,272 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | 2,802 |
| 2005 | 10 | 2,084 |
| 2006 | 5 | 3,548 |
| 2007 | 7 | 2,895 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2009 | 6 | 3,422 |
| 2010 | 7 | 3,156 |
| 2011 | 6 | 3,549 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4,838 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,927 |

## People named Therese

- Thérèse of Lisieux, French Discalced Carmelite nun, Doctor of the Church (1873–1897)
- Thérèse Coffey, British politician
- Therese Neumann, German mystic (1898-1962)
- Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, French salon-holde (1695–1777)
- Thérèse Schwartze, Dutch painter (1851-1918)
- Therese Giehse, German actress (1898–1975)
- Thérèse Sita-Bella, Cameroonian film director
- Therese Huber, German author
- Thérèse Steinmetz, Dutch singer (born 1933)
- Therese Schlesinger-Eckstein, Austrian politician (1863–1940)
- Thérèse Peltier, French artist (1873–1926)
- Therese Albertine Luise Robinson, German-American writer (1797–1870)

## 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.