Terrell
Terrell is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 120 births. Its best rank was 255th, in 1985.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1200.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1989983 births
- Best rank
- #255in 1985
- Since 1885
- 37,969people given the name
The story in the numbers
36,384 boys have been named Terrell in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 983 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1990s alone account for 22%. It has spent 89 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,585 girls have also been given it, 4.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Terrell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 49 | |
| 1910s | 244 | |
| 1920s | 403 | |
| 1930s | 572 | |
| 1940s | 1,516 | |
| 1950s | 2,044 | |
| 1960s | 2,559 | |
| 1970s | 4,434 | |
| 1980s | 7,916 | |
| 1990s | 7,924 | |
| 2000s | 5,141 | |
| 2010s | 2,835 | |
| 2020s | 737 |
In 1989, its biggest year
Terrell was the 259th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1989 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1989.
Names that rose and fell with Terrell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sherrodpeak 1991
- Barringtonpeak 1991
- Jonathanpeak 1988
- Miquelpeak 1986
- Albertopeak 1991
- Randonpeak 1987
- Edgardpeak 1992
- Adalbertopeak 1993
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.