girls:
81 births since 1946
#5635 (1st percentile)
boys:
3k births since 1915
#2311 (50th percentile)
overall:
3k births since 1915
#4930 (36th percentile)
The name Terrel is the #4,930 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,035 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 36.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 36.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,311 (49.6% percentile) for all time with 2,954 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,635 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 81 births since 1946.
Terrel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1946 for girls). Birth data for Terrel is available in 104 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (104 years for boys and 13 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 Terrel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Terrel reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 12.3% percentile (ranked #664) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 45 births per million (ranked 12.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1993, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Terrel ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 7.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Terrel reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #678) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1947, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Terrel".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Terrel is pronounced as TEH-ruhl, which has 2 syllables.
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