girls:
34 births since 1955
#5682 (1st percentile)
boys:
131 births since 1950
#4455 (3rd percentile)
overall:
165 births since 1950
#7574 (2nd percentile)
The name Tery is the #7,574 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 165 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 2.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,455 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 131 births since 1950. For girls, it ranks #5,682 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 34 births since 1955.
Tery first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (1950 for boys and 1955 for girls). Birth data for Tery is available in 19 out of the 42 years between 1950 and 1991 (19 years for boys and 5 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 Tery has been given predominantly to boys, with 79.4% of all recorded births being male. In 1991, 100.0% of babies named Tery were boys.
For boys, Tery reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #633) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1955, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
For girls, Tery reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #785) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1961.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tery".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Tery is pronounced as TEH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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