girls:
96.9k births since 1892
#381 (93rd percentile)
boys:
424.1k births since 1880
#78 (98th percentile)
overall:
521.1k births since 1880
#125 (98th percentile)
The name Terry is the #125 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 521,073 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #78 (98.3% percentile) for all time with 424,140 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #381 (93.3% percentile) for all time with 96,933 births since 1892.
Terry has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1892 for girls). Birth data for Terry is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for boys and 120 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 Terry has been given predominantly to boys, with 81.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 95.8% of babies named Terry were boys.
For boys, Terry reached its peak popularity in 1948, achieving the 95.8% percentile (ranked #26) with 6,807 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 7,517 births per million (ranked 95.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1958, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Terry ranks #713 for boys (21.8% percentile) with 111 births per million, which is 1.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Terry reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 88.7% percentile (ranked #83) with 2,670 births per million. The name was most common in 1955, with 2,670 births per million (ranked 88.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Terry ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 0.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Terry".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Terry. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Terry is pronounced as TEH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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