Terris
Last seen for girls in 2009 at #15,242 · Last seen for boys in 2017 at #9,696
Given to boys 85.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1970 · 27 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 837since 1945
Terris over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | — | — | ||
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| 2017 | — | #9,696 | 7 | |
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | — | — | ||
| 2014 | — | #9,642 | 7 | |
| 2013 | — | #8,789 | 8 | |
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | — | #6,393 | 13 | |
| 2007 | — | #7,590 | 10 | |
| 2006 | — | #7,998 | 9 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,034 | 16 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,492 | 14 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,831 | 8 | |
| 2002 | — | — | ||
| 2001 | — | #4,676 | 16 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,389 | 17 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,537 | 15 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,873 | 13 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | — | #5,501 | 10 | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | — | #4,697 | 12 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,220 | 20 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,005 | 14 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | — | #2,784 | 22 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #3,079 | 17 |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,130 | 10 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,216 | 14 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,107 | 14 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,630 | 11 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,269 | 22 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,338 | 21 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,729 | 17 | |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | #2,236 | 22 |
| 1978 | — | #1,965 | 25 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,270 | 20 | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #2,177 | 21 |
| 1975 | — | #2,902 | 13 | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | — | #2,716 | 13 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,323 | 16 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,784 | 25 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,658 | 27 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,217 | 15 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | #2,611 | 10 |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | #2,627 | 10 |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | #2,617 | 10 |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 | #2,854 | 9 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 | #2,858 | 9 |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | #2,364 | 12 |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | #2,538 | 11 |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 | #3,337 | 7 |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | #2,506 | 11 |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 | #2,361 | 12 |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 | #2,964 | 8 |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | #2,592 | 10 |
| 1953 | — | #2,709 | 9 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | #3,364 | 6 |
| 1950 | — | #2,770 | 8 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,941 | 15 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Terris! It came in at #3,338, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1945–1946, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Terris is popular in 1945
No state had 5 or more boys named Terris in 1945, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Terris
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2017
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1970 at #1,658 (27 births)
- Births halved by 1973, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 65,673 boys born in 1978 were named Terris (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 264,422 boys born in 2017 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,658 in 1970, was only 1 in 68,823 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.1% of all boys named Terris (193) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1964, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 31 | #1,941 (1949) | #3,079 |
| 1950s | 86 | #2,361 (1956) | #2,873 |
| 1960s | 104 | #2,217 (1969) | #2,660 |
| 1970s | 193 | #1,658 (1970) | #2,315 |
| 1980s | 156 | #2,269 (1982) | #3,225 |
| 1990s | 127 | #3,220 (1992) | #4,774 |
| 2000s | 111 | #4,389 (2000) | #6,488 |
| 2010s | 29 | #8,789 (2013) | #9,432 |
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.
Terris in 1945
Top boys' names in 1945
More about 1945
boys
1,345,855 boys got a published name in 1945; 1 in 269,171 of them was named Terris, which outranked 11.8% of the 3,783 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 445 names at #3,338; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.