girls:
43.9k births since 1920
#638 (89th percentile)
boys:
214 births since 1948
#4372 (5th percentile)
overall:
44.2k births since 1920
#1169 (85th percentile)
The name Teri is the #1,169 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 44,156 recorded births since 1920. This represents the 84.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #638 (88.8% percentile) for all time with 43,942 births since 1920. For boys, it ranks #4,372 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 214 births since 1948.
Teri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1920 (1920 for girls and 1948 for boys). Birth data for Teri is available in 93 out of the 104 years between 1920 and 2023 (93 years for girls and 27 years for boys). 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 Teri has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Teri reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 78.6% percentile (ranked #166) with 1,120 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 1,120 births per million (ranked 78.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1964, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Teri ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Teri reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #627) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1955, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Teri".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Teri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Teri is pronounced as TEH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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