girls:
566 births since 1961
#5150 (10th percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1945
#3144 (31st percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1945
#5707 (26th percentile)
The name Terran is the #5,707 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,075 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 26.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,144 (31.4% percentile) for all time with 1,509 births since 1945. For girls, it ranks #5,150 (9.9% percentile) for all time with 566 births since 1961.
Terran first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (1945 for boys and 1961 for girls). Birth data for Terran is available in 63 out of the 79 years between 1945 and 2023 (63 years for boys and 43 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 Terran has been given predominantly to boys, with 72.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Terran were boys.
For boys, Terran reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #724) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 25 births per million (ranked 5.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Terran ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 31.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Terran reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #765) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Terran".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Terran. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.6% confident that Terran is pronounced as TEH-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is teh-ruhn, at 11.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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