| Group info: | | Meaning/translation: | maybe the hunteress |
| Language of origin: | Old Greek |
| Info about origin, female: | origin not known for sure, maybe from Greek ther (game, animal to be hunted) and thus with a meaning hunteress |
| | Therasia is the name of a small island beside Thera (today Santorin) |
| | thus the name sometimes is said to mean woman from Therasia |
| Words: | ther = the animal, the game (in the sense of animal for hunt) Old Greek |
| Topics: | Geographic name |
| Variants' top ranks: | 1:Tess Netherlands 2013, 1:Tereza Czechia 2010, 11:Teresa Poland 2012, 11:Tracy England+Wales 1964, 12:Theresa Munich 2012, 12:Terezinha Brazil 2013, 16:Tena Croatia 2022, 20:Tessa Netherlands 2001, 30:Therese Sweden 2014, 64:Terri USA 1960-1969 |
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| Name variants: All variants, grouped by language of use | | Language | Female Variants | Male Variants |
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| German | Resi, Teresia, Theres, Theresa, Therese, Theresia | |
| French | Thérèse | |
| Portuguese | Tereza, Terezinha | |
| English | Teri, Terri, Terry, Tess, Tessa, Tessie, Tessy, Theresa, Tracy | |
| Italian | Teresa | Teresio |
| Spanish | Teresa | |
| Serbo-Croatian | Tena, Terezija | |
| Slavic | Tereza | |
| Czech | Tereza | |
| Romanian | Tereza | |
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| Name variants: 20 female and 1 male name variants, sorted by name and gender |
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| Teresio | Italian |
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