Tereza

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tereza is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Paraguay it is the 13th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Czech, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay1 in 108◐
  • PTPortugal1 in 223
  • MXMexico1 in 258

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.5M ●

across 11 countries

#166 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
446 ●

5.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 64 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

TeresaLatin · Spanish●6.4M records
טרסהHebrew · Hebrew●1.4K records
ᲢერეზაGeorgian · Georgian●637 records
ΤερεζαGreek · Greek●423 records
ተሬሳEthiopic · Amharic●268 records
เทเรซ่าThai · Thai●52 records
ԹերեզաArmenian · Armenian●11 records
테레자Hangul · Korean●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Teresa in ES Spain, AR Argentina, MX Mexico and 13 more, Therese in FR France, AU Australia, SE Sweden and 8 more and טרסה in PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 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●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Tereza is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#1081,640,1261.1M rec.—89Teresa122
MX Mexico#371,231,8401M rec.—2.4KTeresa225
PL Poland—453,012△122 rec.1 in 85453Kטרסה2
US United States#432402,053884K rec.1 in 827402KTeresa446
PE Peru#73386,763319K rec.——Teresa99
VE Venezuela#58376,560273K rec.——Teresa95
PY Paraguay#13291,84426K rec.——Teresa51
CL Chile#63277,48218K rec.—1Teresa119
FR France#139175,715241K rec.1 in 386176KTherese273
CZ Czechia—167,3840 rec.1 in 64167K—1
BR Brazil#116161,966254K rec.1 in 1.3K220KTereza175
PH Philippines#124146,823120K rec.——Teresa116

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese3.2M75%
  • Czech769K18%
  • English174K4%
  • Spanish61K1%
  • Croatian14K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese3,225,24575%
Czech768,89418%
English173,8064%
Spanish60,6241%
Croatian13,8641%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Tereza is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name798K records spelled Tereza193 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Polish, Czech

    Also written Theresa, Teresa, Тереза, Therese

  • English given name181K records spelled Tereza53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Danish

    Also written Teresa, Teresae, Terésa, Tere'Sa, Térésa

  • a separate given name6.1K records spelled Tereza3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Bolivia, United Kingdom, Ethiopia

    Also written Teréza, Terēza

  • French given name2.7K records spelled Tereza7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Téréza, Térèza, Téreza, Tèreza, Tèrèza

  • Danish given name1.0K records spelled Tereza7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Iceland, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Icelandic

    Also written Teréza

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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.

Over time●

01020301940196019802000202022 · 1996

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Tereza in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1929–2025
Yearrecords
19295
19305
19345
19385
19415
19455
19526
19536
19545
19569
19576
19586
196111
196219
19638
19649
196513
19668
19679
19687
19695
19707
197116
197212
19739
197412
197518
19768
197714
197813
19795
19807
19819
19835
198414
198513
198612
198719
19889
198914
19908
199112
199215
199314
199415
199513
199622
199715
199810
199912
200020
200121
200218
20039
200410
200514
200612
200720
200814
200910
201010
201110
201211
20137
20148
201510
20168
20178
20186
20197
20208
202110
20229
20238
202414
20256

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 76 years between 1929–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Tereza Kesovija, b. 1938Theresa Russell, b. 1957Tereza Maxová, b. 1971Tereza Pergnerová, b. 1974Tereza Marinova, b. 1977Tereza Srbová, b. 1983Tereza Kerndlová, b. 1986Tereza Nvotová, b. 1988Tereza Ramba, b. 1989Tereza Fajksová, b. 1989

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 71 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Tereza
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—220K#238
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—167K#28
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022162K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—161K#205
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—84K#33
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202K#7,546
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.7K#401
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20211.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20201K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—836#205
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—597#607
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026597#607

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 677 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tereza?
We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Tereza (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Tereza have the most bearers?
Tereza is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled teresa.
Where is Tereza most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tereza is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 64 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Tereza compared with other names?
In Argentina, Tereza is the 108th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Tereza a male or female name?
Tereza is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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” — the 108th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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