MEANING & HISTORY
What does Theresia mean?
Theresia is the German and Dutch form of Theresa. Meertens independently discusses several Greek and geographical proposals and explicitly declines to choose among them with certainty.
The name’s well-documented Christian transmission should therefore be described separately from an unproved claim that harvest or summer is its single original meaning.
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Pronunciation & syllables
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People with the name Theresia
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DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Risa Hontiveros
Filipino politician
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THE RECORDED SPELLING
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Theresia in the birth records
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Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Theresia
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Theresa♀From Teresa, earlier recorded as Therasia
- Therese♀German and Scandinavian form of Theresa
- Ambrosia♀Feminine Ambrosios family: immortal
- Athanasia♀Immortality or undying
- Hortensia♀Feminine Hortensius; possibly associated with a garden
- Teodosia·God and giving in the Greek Theodosios formation
- Thea♀Short form of Dorothea or Theodora
- Thelma♀Literary name associated with Greek will
What rhymes with Theresia?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Theresia further
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- Wikidata given-name item Q18147462 — Theresia (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Risa Hontiveros (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q18147462 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Behind the Name — Theresia (opens in a new tab)
German/Dutch Theresa form.
- Behind the Name — Theresa (opens in a new tab)
Fourth-century Therasia attestation and unresolved summer/harvest/island proposals.
- Meertens Institute / KNAW — Theresia (opens in a new tab)
Exact-name explanation discusses competing Greek summer/harvest and island-name etymologies, explicitly retaining uncertainty; consulted directly, not inferred from spelling.