Meaning of the nameTeresinha

Female
Te-re-si-nha

Teresinha is a female name that the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil defines as a diminutive of Teresa, a name of uncertain origin.

Meaning

The meaning of Teresinha is not known for certain. No reliable source documents it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

People (2022): 80,163
Rank in Brazil: #380
Median age: 66 years
2010 Census: 92,667; people

Teresinha in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Teresinha, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1950s (25,839 people).

79,853 women 310 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Teresinha is most common

States with the highest share of people named Teresinha in the population, in the 2022 Census.

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	13,575	0.031%
Rio Grande do Sul	12,792	0.118%
Minas Gerais	8,231	0.040%
Santa Catarina	6,551	0.086%
Paraná	5,428	0.047%
Rio de Janeiro	4,414	0.028%
Piauí	4,343	0.133%
Ceará	3,417	0.039%
Bahia	3,212	0.023%
Maranhão	2,632	0.039%
Pernambuco	2,290	0.025%
Goiás	2,087	0.030%
Pará	1,630	0.020%
Paraíba	1,610	0.041%
Rio Grande do Norte	1,306	0.040%
Distrito Federal	1,236	0.044%
Espírito Santo	1,085	0.028%
Mato Grosso	847	0.023%
Alagoas	623	0.020%
Mato Grosso do Sul	606	0.022%
Amazonas	530	0.013%
Sergipe	480	0.022%
Rondônia	412	0.026%
Tocantins	407	0.027%
Acre	182	0.022%
Roraima	125	0.020%
Amapá	112	0.015%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Teresinha

The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil), citing Machado (1981), defines Teresinha as a diminutive of Teresa, and Behind the Name lists it as a Portuguese diminutive. For Teresa, Machado gives the Latin T(h)eresia, of obscure origin, and prefers to link it to Therasía, the name of two islands, rather than to the Greek therizo, 'to reap'; Wiktionary also offers Therasia or Thera, the old name of the Greek island of Thira, only as suggestions. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 80,163 people named Teresinha, with a median age of 66. The name is almost always female and, proportionally, most common in Piauí.

This is the spelling with a plain T and an S, the most recorded in the group. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil lists Terezinha, Theresinha and Therezinha as spelling variants.

Other spellings of Teresinha

Spelling	People (2022)
Teresinha	80,163
Theresinha	1,513

Sources

Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Teresinha · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Teresa · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
Behind the Name: Teresinha · behindthename.com · origin
Wiktionary: Teresa · en.wiktionary.org · origin

Questions about the name Teresinha

What does the name Teresinha mean?

The meaning of Teresinha is not known for certain: no reliable source documents it. So we give no meaning; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

How many people are named Teresinha in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 80,163 people with the first name Teresinha, which ranks it number 380 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1950s.

Is Teresinha a boy's or a girl's name?

Teresinha is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 79,853 women and 310 men had this name.

In which Brazilian state is Teresinha most common?

Proportionally, in Piauí: 0.133% of the state's population is named Teresinha (4,343 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Teresinha?

Theresinha. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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