Teresa’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Teresa
Teresa's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Teresa's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Teresa: meaning and origin
Teresa is the Spanish and Portuguese form that gave English Theresa its shape. Behind the Name highlights two famous bearers: Saint Teresa of Ávila, the 16th-century Carmelite reformer and writer, and Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910–1997), better known as Mother Teresa, who took the name in honor of Thérèse of Lisieux. Wikipedia treats Teresa, Theresa and Therese as variants of the same Iberian name.
Nicknames and variants
Tess, Tessa, Terry and Terri work for Teresa just as they do for Theresa, and Behind the Name also lists Tessie, Tracy, Tere and Teresita. In Portuguese you may hear Teresinha, and in Hungarian Teréz, so the short forms travel well across languages.
Famous people named Teresa
Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979; she was canonized in 2016. Saint Teresa of Ávila wrote The Interior Castle and helped reform the Carmelite order. And actress Teresa Wright won an Academy Award for Mrs. Miniver (1942) and starred in Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt.
Is Teresa a popular name?
Teresa surged a little later than Theresa. US Social Security data has it 140th in the 1940s, then 30th in the 1950s and 25th in the 1960s, when more than 151,000 American girls were named Teresa. It was 52nd in the 1970s and left the top 200 after the 1980s, so most Teresas today are in their 40s, 50s and 60s.
Teresa trivia
Mother Teresa’s birth name was Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu. She chose Teresa after Thérèse of Lisieux, the “Little Flower”, not Teresa of Ávila, which surprises people who assume the Spanish saint came first in her story.
Gift ideas that suit a Teresa
- For a volunteer. To-do lists and gratitude notes, in honor of Mother Teresa.
- For a spiritual reader. Quotes and quiet pages, for Saint Teresa of Ávila.
- For a 60th birthday. Teresa peaked in the 1960s, so milestone birthdays are here.
- For a classic-film fan. Notes on favorites, for a name shared with Teresa Wright.
How Teresa can use it
Any Teresa, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Teresa can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Teresa’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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