Theresa

Proper noun

Theresa

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Teresa.
   • "Theresa!" exclaimed the stranger, "is your name Theresa?" asked she, a death-like paleness at the same time overspreading her countenance.
     "Is this name so frightful to you?" enquired the recluse.
     "Frightful!" rejoined the stranger, "O, no, I venerate it, like the name of a saint. I had once an...1810, Tales of real life: forming a sequel to miss Edgeworth's Tales of fashionable life, volume 1, London: Henry Colburn, page 72
   • "Theresa,", he said. "I never cared for that name."
     Justine nodded, chewing.
     "I don't like difficult names. I don't like foreignness."
     "Perhaps they're Catholic," Justine said.1976, Anne Tyler, Searching for Caleb, Berkley Books, New York, published 1983, →ISBN, page 7