girls:
170 births since 1947
#5546 (3rd percentile)
boys:
34.2k births since 1885
#614 (87th percentile)
overall:
34.4k births since 1885
#1355 (82nd percentile)
The name Terence is the #1,355 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 34,365 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 82.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #614 (86.6% percentile) for all time with 34,195 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #5,546 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 170 births since 1947.
Terence first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for boys and 1947 for girls). Birth data for Terence is available in 118 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (118 years for boys and 24 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Terence has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Terence reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 64.2% percentile (ranked #237) with 501 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 501 births per million (ranked 64.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Terence ranks #879 for boys (3.5% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 4.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Terence reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #793) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Terence".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Terence is pronounced as TEH-ruhns, which has 2 syllables.
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