Therese

Where Therese comes from

Therese 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. 1792
    Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen born
    Queen consort of Bavaria
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #518 among girls — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1927
    Peak, #220
    841 babies named Therese — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1932
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #321.
  5. 1988
    Therese Johaug born
    Norwegian cross-country skier
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Therese Johaug · Norwegian cross-country skier, born 1988
  • Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen · Queen consort of Bavaria, 1792–1854
  • Therese Neumann · German mystic, 1898–1962
  • Therese Brunsvik · Hungarian noble, 1775–1861
  • Therese Alshammar · Swedish swimmer, born 1977

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.