Terri

Where Terri comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Terri.

  • Vowel-ended
Terri through the years
  1. 1922
    First appearance
    #5,009 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    Peak, #46
    8,783 babies named Terri, the most in any year.
  3. 1965
    Terri Sewell born
    American politician
  4. 1965
    Terri Lyne Carrington born
    American drummer
  5. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #83.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Terri Sewell · American politician, born 1965
  • Terri Lyne Carrington · American drummer, born 1965
  • Terri Clark · Canadian country musician, born 1968
  • Terri Irwin · American-Australian zoologist, conservationist and television host, born 1964
  • Terri Tatchell · Canadian screenwriter, born 1978

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.