girls:
143 births since 1946
#5573 (2nd percentile)
boys:
837 births since 1945
#3750 (18th percentile)
overall:
980 births since 1945
#6759 (13th percentile)
The name Terris is the #6,759 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 980 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 12.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,750 (18.2% percentile) for all time with 837 births since 1945. For girls, it ranks #5,573 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 143 births since 1946.
Terris first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (1945 for boys and 1946 for girls). Birth data for Terris is available in 68 out of the 73 years between 1945 and 2017 (67 years for boys and 24 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 Terris has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2017, 100.0% of babies named Terris were boys.
For boys, Terris reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #646) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 15 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
For girls, Terris reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #780) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Terris".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Terris. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Terris is pronounced as TEH-rihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TEH-rees, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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