Terran
Last seen for girls in 2018 at #12,464 · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to boys 73.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1992 · 51 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,536since 1945
Terran over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #5,861 | 15 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,832 | 12 | |
| 2023 | — | #6,220 | 14 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,874 | 15 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,780 | 20 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,141 | 24 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,794 | 28 | |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | #3,171 | 36 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #5,111 | 18 |
| 2016 | — | #4,327 | 23 | |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | #3,591 | 30 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #3,617 | 29 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #3,405 | 31 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2011 | — | #3,605 | 29 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,308 | 33 | |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #3,476 | 31 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #2,974 | 39 |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 | #2,744 | 42 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #3,389 | 29 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | #2,599 | 41 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | #3,044 | 31 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #2,632 | 36 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | #2,562 | 37 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #2,379 | 40 |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | #2,098 | 45 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #1,931 | 50 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #2,024 | 44 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | #2,254 | 36 |
| 1995 | #5,019 | 19 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1994 | #5,016 | 19 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 | #2,347 | 32 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 | #1,677 | 51 |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 | #2,606 | 26 |
| 1990 | #4,380 | 22 | #2,255 | 31 |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 | #2,615 | 24 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 | #2,367 | 25 |
| 1987 | #3,857 | 22 | #2,057 | 29 |
| 1986 | #4,028 | 20 | #2,057 | 28 |
| 1985 | #2,440 | 40 | #1,975 | 29 |
| 1984 | #3,874 | 20 | #2,824 | 16 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | #2,272 | 22 |
| 1982 | #3,172 | 27 | #2,166 | 24 |
| 1981 | — | #2,338 | 21 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #3,256 | 13 |
| 1979 | — | #2,310 | 21 | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #2,568 | 17 |
| 1977 | — | #2,270 | 20 | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #2,508 | 17 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | — | #2,799 | 13 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,445 | 9 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | #3,370 | 9 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | — | #2,682 | 11 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | #3,930 | 5 |
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| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | #4,065 | 5 |
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| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
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| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1945
The first year at least five boys were named Terran! It came in at #3,338, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1945–1957, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 971 spots since 2024 (#6,832 → #5,861)
- 1,720 spots since 2020 (#4,141 → #5,861)
- 2,270 spots since 2015 (#3,591 → #5,861)
Rise & fade · boys
47 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1992 at #1,677 (51 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 24 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 38,227
- Highest: 1 in 38,227 boys born in 1998 were named Terran (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,677 in 1992, was only 1 in 39,165 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 24.3% of all boys named Terran (373) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1986
- Mostly girls until 1985, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 10 | #3,338 (1945) | #3,536 |
| 1950s | 7 | #3,275 (1958) | #3,275 |
| 1960s | 41 | #2,682 (1969) | #3,500 |
| 1970s | 133 | #2,270 (1977) | #2,983 |
| 1980s | 231 | #1,975 (1985) | #2,393 |
| 1990s | 373 | #1,677 (1992) | #2,230 |
| 2000s | 352 | #2,379 (2000) | #2,972 |
| 2010s | 289 | #3,171 (2018) | #3,730 |
| 2020s | 100 | #4,141 (2020) | #5,618 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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