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Baby Name Teresa |
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| Meaning of Teresa - What does the name Teresa means? |
| Pronunciation: |
| tay-ray-sah |  |
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| Gender: |
Girl Name |
| Origin: |
Spanish |
| Name Meaning: |
Generally believed to be derived from the Greek therizein (to reap, to gather in). The first known bearer of the name was the Spanish wife of St. Paulinus, a 5th-century Roman bishop of Nola. Teresa was not used outside the Iberian Peninsula until the 16th century, when the Spanish mystic St. Teresa of Avila (1515-82) made the name popular among Roman Catholics throughout Europe |
| Origins: |
View this name in other origins -
Irish, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish |
| Variants: | Terasa, Teresia, Tereza, Terezia, Terusa, Therese, Theresia, Tresa. | | Shortened forms: | Tera. | | Diminutive: | Teresita. | | Pet forms: | Tea, Techa, Tessa |
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