Teressa

Where Teressa comes from

The dictionaries list Teressa as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1960
    Peak, #617
    266 babies named Teressa — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,038.
  4. 1988
    Teressa Liane born
    Australian actor
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Teressa Liane · Australian actor, born 1988
  • Teressa Raiford · American activist and politician

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.