Terilyn
Last seen for girls in 2010 at #13,448
- Peak · girls
- 1963 · 27 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 622since 1946
Terilyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Terilyn has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 |
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| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 |
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| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
| 1972 | #2,976 | 22 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 |
| 1970 | #3,311 | 19 |
| 1969 | #3,199 | 18 |
| 1968 | #4,000 | 12 |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 |
| 1966 | #3,400 | 14 |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 |
| 1964 | #2,530 | 24 |
| 1963 | #2,306 | 27 |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 |
| 1961 | #3,318 | 15 |
| 1960 | #2,904 | 18 |
| 1959 | #2,458 | 22 |
| 1958 | #2,663 | 19 |
| 1957 | #3,150 | 14 |
| 1956 | #3,493 | 12 |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 |
| 1954 | #2,889 | 15 |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
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| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Terilyn! It came in at #4,960, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1946–1953, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Terilyn is popular in 1959
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,481 · 1 in 33,270
Best ever in a state: #352 in Utah, 1960.
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| California | #1,481 | 5 | 1 in 33,270 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Terilyn
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2010
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 1963 at #2,306 (27 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 69,147 girls born in 1972 were named Terilyn (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 253,942 girls born in 2010 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,306 in 1963, was only 1 in 71,389 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.8% of all girls named Terilyn (167) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #4,960 (1946) | #4,960 |
| 1950s | 106 | #2,458 (1959) | #3,930 |
| 1960s | 167 | #2,306 (1963) | #3,268 |
| 1970s | 122 | #2,976 (1972) | #5,417 |
| 1980s | 91 | #4,686 (1983) | #6,542 |
| 1990s | 92 | #5,713 (1994) | #9,610 |
| 2000s | 32 | #9,482 (2002) | #13,800 |
| 2010s | 7 | #13,448 (2010) | #13,448 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Terilyn in 1959
Top girls' names in 1959
More about 1959
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2,023,462 girls got a published name in 1959; 1 in 91,976 of them was named Terilyn, which outranked 65.9% of the 7,202 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,395Trula23
- #2,395Zulema23
- #2,395Zulma23
- #2,458Terilyn22
- #2,458Abbey22
- #2,458Alaine22
- #2,458Alethia22
- #2,517Adelia21
- #2,517Alaina21
- #2,517Albertina21
Tied with 58 names at #2,458; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.