Theresia

Where Theresia comes from

Theresia hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #623 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #507
    13 babies named Theresia — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #817.
  4. 1963
    Theresia Kiesl born
    Austrian athletics competitor
  5. 1965
    Theresia Bauer born
    German politician
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Theresia Kiesl · Austrian athletics competitor, born 1963
  • Theresia Bauer · German politician, born 1965
  • Theresia Walser · German playwright and author, born 1967
  • Theresia van der Pant · Dutch sculptor, 1924–2013
  • Theresia Gouw · indonesian-American entrepreneur and venture capital, born 1968

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.