Girl
Teresa
Teresa means "Harvester" and comes from Greek, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It has not kept pace since its 1960s peak. In the current registry, it is a name most people have come across. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
GreekHarvester
GreekOr from the island of Therasia
Births by decade
1900s
1,889
1910s
5,199
1920s
9,263
1930s
7,697
1940s
19,374
1950s
114,504
1960s
152,188
1970s
56,260
1980s
23,536
1990s
11,977
2000s
6,750
2010s
3,504
Peaked in the 1960s · 412,141 total U.S. births since 1900