girls:
146.1k births since 1922
#271 (95th percentile)
boys:
914 births since 1946
#3676 (20th percentile)
overall:
147k births since 1922
#509 (93rd percentile)
The name Terri is the #509 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 146,981 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 93.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #271 (95.3% percentile) for all time with 146,067 births since 1922. For boys, it ranks #3,676 (19.8% percentile) for all time with 914 births since 1946.
Terri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for girls and 1946 for boys). Birth data for Terri is available in 99 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023 (99 years for girls and 54 years for boys). 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 Terri has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Terri reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 94.1% percentile (ranked #46) with 4,225 births per million. The name was most common in 1959, with 4,225 births per million (ranked 94.1% percentile). Despite a low point in 2019, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Terri ranks #932 for girls (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Terri reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #626) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 20 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Terri".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Terri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Terri is pronounced as TEH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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