Entry № 10542 · French origin

Therese Therese — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tay-REZ /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Harvester (Thérèse of Lisieux, the Little Flower of Jesus)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "harvester (thérèse of lisieux, the little flower of jesus)".

Thérèse is the French form of Teresa — possibly from the Greek theros ("summer, harvest"). "My vocation is love."

Harvester (Thérèse of Lisieux, the Little Flower of Jesus) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Thérèse
Transliteration
Thérèse
Pronunciation
/ təˈreɪz /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Therese stands.

Therese does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Thereses before her.

Real people
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
French Carmelite Doctor of the Church.
1873 – 1897
Thérèse Casgrain
Canadian women's suffragist.
1896 – 1981
In fiction
Thérèse
Story of a Soul.
1898

Names connected to Therese.

The number behind Therese.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Therese reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.