girls:
1.6k births since 1920
#4171 (27th percentile)
boys:
36.3k births since 1885
#591 (87th percentile)
overall:
37.8k births since 1885
#1283 (83rd percentile)
The name Terrell is the #1,283 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 37,846 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 83.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #591 (87.1% percentile) for all time with 36,261 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #4,171 (27.0% percentile) for all time with 1,585 births since 1920.
Terrell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for boys and 1920 for girls). Birth data for Terrell is available in 123 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (123 years for boys and 70 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 Terrell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Terrell reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 67.1% percentile (ranked #250) with 469 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 469 births per million (ranked 67.1% percentile). Despite a low point around 1997, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Terrell ranks #810 for boys (11.1% percentile) with 58 births per million, which is 12.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Terrell reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 7.5% percentile (ranked #715) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 34 births per million (ranked 7.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Terrell".
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Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Terrell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.3% confident that Terrell is pronounced as TEH-ruhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ter-EHL, at 21.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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