Teresa
| Teresa |
| Gender |
Female |
| Other names |
| Alternative spelling |
Theresa, Therese |
| Nickname(s) |
Terri, Terry, Tess |
| Derived |
perhaps from Greek therizein (to harvest) |
Teresa, Theresa, and Therese (French: Thérèse) are feminine given names. The name is thought to be derived from the Greek verb θήρίζεἰν therizein, meaning to harvest.
Its popularity likely increased due to the prominence of several Roman Catholic saints, including Teresa of Ávila, Thérèse of Lisieux and, most recently, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
The popularity of this name in the United States over the last 15 years is falling, according to the US Census. Spelled "Theresa", it was ranked as the 852nd most popular name for girls born in 2008, down from 226th in 1992 (it ranked 65th in 1950, and 102nd in 1900). Spelled "Teresa", it was the 580th most popular name for girls born in 2008, down from 206th in 1992 (it ranked 81st in 1950, and 220th in 1900).
Name variants
- Renia (Polish)
- Resa (German)
- Resel (German)
- Resi (German)
- Rezi (Hungarian)
- Rézi (Czech)
- Riza (Hungarian)
- Rizus (Hungarian)
- Rocel (German)
- Teca (Hungarian)
- Techa (Spanish)
- Tere (Spanish)
- Terecita (Spanish)
- Tereixa (Galician)
- Terenia (Polish)
- Teresa (Danish, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish)
- Terese (Basque)
- Teresia (Swedish)
- Teresinha (Portuguese)
- Teresita (Spanish)
- Tereska (Polish)
- Tereson (French)
- Teressa (Portuguese)
- Teréz (Hungarian)
- Tereza (Breton, Bulgarian, Czech, Portuguese, Romanian)
- Teréza (Hungarian)
- Terēze (Latvian)
- Terézia (Slovak)
- Terezia (Hungarian)
- Terezie (Czech)
- Terezija (Slovene)
- Terezilya (Russian)
- Terezinha (Portuguese)
- Terezka (Czech)
- Teri (English)
- Terike (Hungarian)
- Terina (Italian)
- Terinka (Czech)
- Tèrìz (Lebanese Arabic)
- Terka (Czech)
- Terri (English)
- Terrie (English)
- Terry (English)
- Tersa (Italian)
- Teruska (Hungarian)
- Tesa (Polish)
- Tesia (Polish)
- Tess (English)
- Tessa (English)
- Tessan (Swedish)
- Tessania (German)
- Tessie (English)
- Tete (Spanish)
- Tété (French)
- Thera (Dutch)
- Therasia (Latin)
- Theresa (Danish, English, German, Greek, Norwegian, Swedish, Indonesian)
- Thérèse (French)
- Therese (Danish, German, Norwegian, Swedish)
- Theresia (Dutch, German, Swedish, Indonesian)
- Toiréasa (Irish Gaelic)
- Tracee (English)
- Tracey (English)
- Traci (English)
- Tracie (English)
- Tracy (English)
- Treasa (Irish Gaelic)
- Threissya (Malayalam)
- Trees (Dutch)
- Tresa (German)
- Trescha (German)
- Treszka (Hungarian)
- Zilya (Russian)
- Zizi (Romanian)[1]
- 杜麗莎 (Chinese)
- テレサ (Japanese)
- 테레사 (Korean)
People
In aristocracy:
In religion:
In the arts:
- Teresa Berganza, Spanish opera singer
- Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer
- Teresa Carpenter, Pulitzer prize winning American author
- Teresa Carpio, Cantopop singer and actress
- Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan musician
- Teresa Cheung (socialite), Hong Kong socialite and actress
- Teresa De Sio, Italian folk singer-songwriter
- Teresa Edgerton, American author of fantasy novels and short stories
- Theresa Fu, Hong Kong singer and actress
- Therese Grankvist, Swedish singer
- Teresa Graves, American actress and singer
- Teresa Medeiros, American romance novelist
- Teresa Nielsen Hayden, American writer and teacher
- Teresa Parente, American actress
- Theresa Randle, American actress
- Theresa Russell, American actress
- Teresa Salgueiro, Portuguese singer
- Teresa Simas, Portuguese dancer and choreographer
- Teresa Stratas, Canadian soprano
- Teresa Teng, Taiwanese queen of pop
- Teresa Villaverde, Portuguese film director
- Lady Teresa Waugh, British novelist and translator
- Teresa Wentzler, American artist and counted cross-stitch designer
- Teresa Wright, Academy Award-winning American actress
- Teresa Żarnowerówna, Polish avant-garde artist
In politics:
In sports:
- Therese Crawford, American volleyball player
- Teresa Ciepły, Polish sprinter
- Teresa Earnhardt, widow of racing legend Dale Earnhardt
- Teresa Edwards, American basketball player
- Teresa Machado, Portuguese athlete
- Teresa Piccini, Mexican ten-pin bowler
- Teresa Rivera, Mexican swimmer
- Teresa Rohmann, German medley swimmer
- Teresa Vaill, American racewalker
- Theresa Zabell, Spanish sailor
Others:
Fictional characters
- Teresa Bryant, on the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Teresa Cammeniti, on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Theresa Rourke Cassidy, the alter-ego of the Marvel Comics heroine Siryn
- Teresa Lisbon, one of the main characters in the drama The Mentalist
- Theresa "Terri" McGreggor, in Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Teresa Moreno, wife of Richard Sharpe in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series of historical fiction
- Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald, main protagonist from soap opera "Passions"
- Teresa of the Faint Smile, one of the main characters in the popular anime and manga series Claymore
- Teresa Chávez, main protagonist and villain from the TV Series Teresa
- Teresa Wisemail, from the PlayStation role-playing game Suikoden II
- Thérèse Defarge, the main villain of Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities
- Theresa, an immortal seeress, one of the main characters in the Fable video game series
- Theresa McQueen, from the British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Tess Durbeyfield, from Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Teresa, Barbie's best friend
- Teresa, an important character in James Dashner's books The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials
- Tereza, from Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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