Theresa

Where Theresa comes from

First used in Spain, supposedly derived from Latin Thēra, from Ancient Greek Θήρᾱ (Thḗrā), name of a city in Santorini, Greece.
— Wiktionary's entry for Theresa
  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #112 among girls — 153 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1956
    Theresa May born
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019
  3. 1956
    Peak, #32
    10,841 babies named Theresa — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1957
    Theresa Russell born
    American actress
  5. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #68.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Teresa.
Namesakes
  • Theresa May · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019, born 1956
  • Theresa Russell · American actress, born 1957
  • Theresa Randle · American actress, born 1964
  • Theresa Villiers · British politician, born 1968
  • Theresa Fitzpatrick · New Zealand rugby union player, born 1995

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.