Terese

Where Terese comes from

Terese 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. 1889
    First appearance
    #1,279 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1950
    Terese Berceau born
    American politician
  3. 1955
    Peak, #570
    256 babies named Terese — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #951.
  5. 1980
    Terese Pedersen born
    Norwegian handball player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Terese Pedersen · Norwegian handball player, born 1980
  • Terese Berceau · American politician, born 1950
  • Terese Fredenwall · Swedish composer and musician, born 1986
  • Terese Svoboda · American writer, born 1950
  • Terese Alvén · Swedish health motivator and writer, 1982–2019

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.