Terri

#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · Last seen for boys in 2008 at #12,553
Given to girls 99.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
1959 · 8,783 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
16 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · girls
146,113
since 1922

Terri over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201933peak #46, 1959girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#6,11619—
2024#5,02126—
2023#5,96020—
2022#4,37832—
2021#4,41331—
2020#3,39945—
2019#4,07235—
2018#4,23733—
2017#3,47944—
2016#3,77740—
2015#3,65042—
2014#3,18451—
2013#3,77840—
2012#3,21351—
2011#3,55044—
2010#3,25650—
2009#3,29850—
2008#2,80264#12,5535
2007#2,36880—
2006#2,18688—
2005#2,07390#11,4725
2004#1,94296—
2003#1,486131—
2002#1,345144#6,08811
2001#1,458129#9,2436
2000#1,369136—
1999#1,114178—
1998#1,094176—
1997#976200#6,6188
1996#865229#9,0155
1995#886214#6,4078
1994#795256#6,3728
1993#746278#6,2288
1992#707305#6,1288
1991#611369—
1990#554426#3,16619
1989#529438#4,81110
1988#472480#3,91512
1987#412541#4,9688
1986#372630#3,88211
1985#333711#3,40113
1984#298796#3,27013
1983#267906#3,63011
1982#2341,090#3,69211
1981#2341,066#3,03014
1980#2421,068#3,83810
1979#2311,128#2,66917
1978#2221,116#3,21512
1977#1921,389#2,55617
1976#1841,388#2,17721
1975#1651,601#2,28819
1974#1511,826#2,05021
1973#1362,089#1,54831
1972#1242,495#1,92822
1971#1153,166#1,66828
1970#1133,402#1,46233
1969#933,903#1,91419
1968#834,267#1,45529
1967#774,523#1,57324
1966#724,921#1,23737
1965#695,373#1,62523
1964#627,144#1,21940
1963#587,704#1,30536
1962#548,433#1,58825
1961#518,730#1,49629
1960#498,743#1,46330
1959#468,783#1,52227
1958#518,184#1,32134
1957#686,972#1,43630
1956#815,744#1,53226
1955#855,153#1,90217
1954#1004,130#2,44911
1953#1302,725#2,09914
1952#1582,071—
1951#1851,563#3,0667
1950#2281,106#3,0217
1949#246938#2,8028
1948#259849#3,3166
1947#274780#3,7335
1946#330510#3,5255
1945#350389—
1944#461242—
1943#545189—
1942#628143—
1941#93462—
1940#99751—
1939#1,13241—
1938#1,38229—
1937#1,78419—
1936#1,95016—
1935#2,00616—
1934#2,28913—
1933#1,90617—
1932#2,36513—
1931#3,2268—
1930#3,3458—
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1928#3,1649—
1927#2,55213—
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1924#5,0615—
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First appearance
1922

The first year at least five girls were named Terri! It came in at #5,009, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1922–1924, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Terri is popular in 1933

No state had 5 or more girls named Terri in 1933, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Terri
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,095 spots since 2024 (#5,021 → #6,116)
  • 2,717 spots since 2020 (#3,399 → #6,116)
  • 2,466 spots since 2015 (#3,650 → #6,116)
  • Biggest jump: 306 spots in 1942 (#934 → #628)
  • Biggest drop: 118 spots in 1998 (#976 → #1,094)
Rise & fade · girls
37 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1922
  • Peaked 1959 at #46 (8,783 births)
  • Births halved by 1968, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 100 for 16 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 16 yrs · run 1954–1969
  • Top 1,000: 58 yrs · run 1940–1997
Share of babies · girls
1 in 230
  • Highest: 1 in 230 girls born in 1959 were named Terri (0.43%)
  • Latest: 1 in 84,593 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 43.6% of all girls named Terri (63,741) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s40#2,552 (1927)#3,890
1930s180#1,132 (1939)#2,139
1940s4,153#246 (1949)#502
1950s46,431#46 (1959)#113
1960s63,741#49 (1960)#67
1970s19,600#113 (1970)#163
1980s7,726#234 (1982)#339
1990s2,631#554 (1990)#835
2000s1,008#1,345 (2002)#2,033
2010s430#3,184 (2014)#3,620
2020s173#3,399 (2020)#4,881

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.

Terri in 1933

girls
#1,906
17 births · 1 in 59,290 girls

Top girls' names in 1933

  1. #1Mary55,517
  2. #2Betty31,531
  3. #3Barbara26,949
  4. #4Dorothy22,054
  5. #5Joan19,294
  6. #6Patricia18,632
  7. #7Margaret15,241
  8. #8Helen14,644
  9. #9Shirley14,320
  10. #10Doris12,025
  11. #1,906Terri17
More about 1933

girls

1,007,932 girls got a published name in 1933; 1 in 59,290 of them was named Terri, which outranked 60.8% of the 4,858 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Terri
  1. #1,835Val18
  2. #1,835Vaughn18
  3. #1,835Willard18
  4. #1,906Terri17
  5. #1,906Adah17
  6. #1,906Albertina17
  7. #1,906Aldene17
  8. #1,970Anabel16
  9. #1,970Andrew16
  10. #1,970Annelle16

Tied with 63 names at #1,906; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1932
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,022Rheta#1,754 → #732
  2. ↑ 930Joellen#1,877 → #947
  3. ↑ 583Veola#1,568 → #985
  4. ↑ 483Sharlene#1,162 → #679
  5. ↑ 475Louetta#1,448 → #973
Fallers
  1. ↓ 395Golda#969 → #1,364
  2. ↓ 322Louis#940 → #1,262
  3. ↓ 298Bebe#899 → #1,197
  4. ↓ 291Clyde#998 → #1,289
  5. ↓ 291Mariam#998 → #1,289

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1933 →