girls:
6.5k births since 1880
#2053 (64th percentile)
overall:
6.5k births since 1880
#3363 (57th percentile)
The name Teressa is the #3,363 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,470 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 56.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,053 (64.1% percentile) for all time with 6,470 births since 1880.
Teressa has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Teressa is available in 113 out of the 141 years between 1880 and 2020. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Teressa reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 31.4% percentile (ranked #529) with 128 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 128 births per million (ranked 31.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Teressa".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Teressa", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 16 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Teresa" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Teresa..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Teressa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.5% confident that Teressa is pronounced as ter-EH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ter-REH-suh, at 12.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like T ER0 EH1 S AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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