Teri

Where Teri comes from

A spelling variant of Terry, from Teresa.
— Wiktionary's entry for Teri
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1920
    First appearance
    #3,957 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1960
    Peak, #171
    2,329 babies named Teri — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1964
    Teri Hatcher born
    American actress
  4. 1969
    Teri Polo born
    American actress
  5. 1969
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #254.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Teresa.
Namesakes
  • Teri Hatcher · American actress, born 1964
  • Teri Polo · American actress, born 1969
  • Teri Weigel · American pornographic actress and model, born 1962
  • Teri McMinn · American actress, born 1951
  • Teri Harrison · American actress and model, born 1981

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.