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Baby name
Teresa
Girl
Origin of the name
Teresa is the Spanish and Italian form of the French Thérèse. Saint Teresa of Ávila and Mother Teresa made it famous.
Short-lived name
416,044births since 1880
1960sgeneration
No. 18rank at its peak, in 1961
Where babies named Teresa are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Teresa is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Teresa is most common in Tennessee (1.7 times), West Virginia (1.6) and North Carolina (1.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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