girls:
527 births since 1943
#5189 (9th percentile)
boys:
72.2k births since 1886
#388 (92nd percentile)
overall:
72.7k births since 1886
#855 (89th percentile)
The name Terrence is the #855 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 72,711 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 89.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #388 (91.6% percentile) for all time with 72,184 births since 1886. For girls, it ranks #5,189 (9.2% percentile) for all time with 527 births since 1943.
Terrence first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for boys and 1943 for girls). Birth data for Terrence is available in 130 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (130 years for boys and 48 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 Terrence has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Terrence reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 72.3% percentile (ranked #186) with 766 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 766 births per million (ranked 72.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Terrence ranks #782 for boys (14.2% percentile) with 73 births per million, which is 9.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Terrence reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #740) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Terrence".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Terrence is pronounced as TEH-ruhns, which has 2 syllables.
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