first name
TERESSA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 5,440 people named Teressa, 65.8% reported their origin as White, 21.3% as Black and 7.3% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Teressa peaked in 1960, when 266 babies got the name.
At least 6,480 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Teressa by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,178. The largest share of babies named Teressa, 44.4%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Teressa is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Teressa has been most common in South Carolina (5×), North Carolina (4×), and Mississippi (3.5×), and least common in New York (0.27×).
3,659 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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