Meaning of the nameThereza

Female
The-re-za

Thereza is a spelling of the name Tereza.

Meaning

The meaning of Thereza 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): 7,553
Rank in Brazil: #2,062
Median age: 76 years
2010 Census: 7,556; people

Thereza in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Thereza, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born before 1940 (2,730 people).

7,535 women 0 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 Thereza is most common

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

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	2,862	0.006%
Rio de Janeiro	1,676	0.010%
Paraná	509	0.004%
Rio Grande do Sul	462	0.004%
Minas Gerais	457	0.002%
Espírito Santo	253	0.007%
Santa Catarina	168	0.002%
Bahia	166	0.001%
Pernambuco	147	0.002%
Ceará	114	0.001%
Paraíba	94	0.002%
Distrito Federal	89	0.003%
Rio Grande do Norte	67	0.002%
Mato Grosso do Sul	64	0.002%
Alagoas	63	0.002%
Mato Grosso	61	0.002%
Pará	55	0.001%
Maranhão	54	0.001%
Goiás	54	0.001%
Amazonas	42	0.001%
Sergipe	32	0.001%
Piauí	22	0.001%
Rondônia	15	0.001%

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

The spelling Thereza

It is written with Th, like Theresa; the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil lists it among the spelling variants of Tereza, and the largest group of people recorded was born before 1940.

About the name Tereza

Behind the Name lists Tereza as a Brazilian form of Theresa, a name of uncertain origin: it may come from Greek theros, 'summer', from therizo, 'to harvest', or from the name of the Greek island of Therasia, in the Santorini archipelago. Wiktionary says the name was first used in Spain and supposes that it derives from Latin Thēra, from Greek Θήρᾱ, the name of a city on Santorini. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 161,966 people named Tereza, with a median age of 65. The name is almost always female, and the largest group of people recorded was born in the 1950s; proportionally, it is most common in Paraná. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) lists Teresa, Theresa and Thereza as spelling variants of Tereza.

Other spellings of Tereza

Spelling	People (2022)
Tereza	161,966
Thereza	7,553

Sources

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

Questions about the name Thereza

What does the name Thereza mean?

The meaning of Thereza 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 Thereza in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 7,553 people with the first name Thereza, which ranks it number 2,062 among the country's names. The largest group was born before 1940.

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

Thereza is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 7,535 women and 0 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Thereza most common?

Proportionally, in Rio de Janeiro: 0.010% of the state's population is named Thereza (1,676 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Thereza?

Tereza. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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