Teressa

Where Teressa comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Teressa.

  • Vowel-ended
Teressa through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls, with 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1960
    Peak, #617
    266 babies named Teressa, the most in any year.
  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.