girls:
83 births since 1946
#5633 (1st percentile)
boys:
513 births since 1932
#4073 (11th percentile)
overall:
596 births since 1932
#7143 (8th percentile)
The name Terril is the #7,143 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 596 recorded births since 1932. This represents the 7.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,073 (11.1% percentile) for all time with 513 births since 1932. For girls, it ranks #5,633 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 83 births since 1946.
Terril first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1932 (1932 for boys and 1946 for girls). Birth data for Terril is available in 59 out of the 70 years between 1932 and 2001 (59 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 Terril has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2001, 100.0% of babies named Terril were boys.
For boys, Terril reached its peak popularity in 1945, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #525) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1945, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
For girls, Terril reached its peak popularity in 1948, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #683) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1948, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1963.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Terril".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Terril. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.3% confident that Terril is pronounced as TEH-rihl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TEH-ruhl, at 34.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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