girls:
751 births since 1943
#4965 (13th percentile)
boys:
69.9k births since 1895
#394 (91st percentile)
overall:
70.7k births since 1895
#862 (89th percentile)
The name Terrance is the #862 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 70,654 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 88.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #394 (91.4% percentile) for all time with 69,903 births since 1895. For girls, it ranks #4,965 (13.1% percentile) for all time with 751 births since 1943.
Terrance first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (1895 for boys and 1943 for girls). Birth data for Terrance is available in 115 out of the 129 years between 1895 and 2023 (115 years for boys and 50 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 Terrance has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Terrance reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 74.8% percentile (ranked #174) with 751 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 751 births per million (ranked 74.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1992, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Terrance ranks #762 for boys (16.4% percentile) with 84 births per million, which is 11.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Terrance reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #720) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Terrance".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Terrance is pronounced as TEH-ruhns, which has 2 syllables.
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