Terrence

Where Terrence comes from

The dictionaries list Terrence as a given name — a male given name from Latin, variant of Terence — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #605 among boys, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1950
    Peak, #176
    1,267 babies named Terrence — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1996
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #376.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin, variant of Terence.
Namesakes

No widely known Terrence turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.