Girl
Therese
As a girl's name, Therese traces back to French, where it is understood to mean "French form of Theresa". It has not kept pace since its 1950s peak. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.
FrenchFrench form of Theresa
EtymologyPossibly "to harvest"; or from the island of Thera
Births by decade
1900s
282
1910s
899
1920s
4,501
1930s
3,231
1940s
3,166
1950s
9,327
1960s
7,583
1970s
1,947
1980s
1,430
1990s
1,053
2000s
843
2010s
494
Peaked in the 1950s · 34,756 total U.S. births since 1900