Theresia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/teˈʁeːzi̯a/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Theresia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Se Teresia.
- NLNetherlands1 in 254(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 678
- ATAustria≈1 in 3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- 1 in 254 (inferred from the name graph)
≈86,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Se Teresia.
Sources 2
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Theresia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #445 | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 678 | — | Theresia | 22 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 67,943 | 1 in 254 | 65K | Theresia | 53 |
| DE Germany | #564 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 1 | Theresia | 146 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #111 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | listed | Theresia | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 4,065 | 1 in 2.5K | 4.1K | Theresia | 49 |
| AT Austria | #368 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 792 | Theresia | 77 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); the wgnd-cd-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maria Christina von Sachsenb. 1735PLnot in their usual namePrincess of Saxony and an Abbess (1735-1782)
- Maria Theresia Paradisb. 1759ATAustrian musician and composer (1759–1824)
- Marie of Saxe-Altenburgb. 1818DEnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Hanover (1818–1907)
- Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austriab. 1845ATnot in their usual nameAustrian aristocrat
- Thérèse Schwartzeb. 1851NLnot in their usual nameDutch painter (1851-1918)
- Archduchess Adelheid of Austriab. 1914ATnot in their usual nameArchduchess of Austria (1914–1971)
- Teri Shieldsb. 1933USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, film producer, socialite, and former model (1933-2012)
- Marie-Aglaë, Princess of Lichtensteinb. 1940CZnot in their usual nameConsort of Liechtenstein (1989-2021)
- Risa Hontiverosb. 1966PHnot in their usual nameFilipino politician
- Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabantb. 2001BEnot in their usual nameheir apparent to the Belgian throne
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 65K | #22 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 12K | #340 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4.1K | #694 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 3.4K | #487 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 792 | #406 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 561 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 12 | #425 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2025 | 1 | #2 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2018 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2025 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Theresia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 86 thousand people named Theresia in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled theresia.
- Where is Theresia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Theresia is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 254 people — even though Tanzania holds more of our records for it.
- Is Theresia a male or female name?
- Theresia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Theresia?
- In the etymology graph, Teresa, Theresa and Terri are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Theresia?
- A machine transcription gives /teˈʁeːzi̯a/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Theresia mean?
- Recorded meaning: Se Teresia.
- How common is the name Theresia?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 67,943 people named Theresia, about 1 in 254 residents.
- How common is Theresia compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Theresia is the 445th most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/theresiaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Theresia” — the 445th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.