Terri
Terri is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. Its best rank was 46th, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19598,783 births
- Best rank
- #46in 1959
- Since 1922
- 146,095people given the name
The story in the numbers
146,095 girls have been named Terri in the United States since 1922, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 8,783 births — 0.43% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 26 births in 2024, against 8,783 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 44%. It has spent 57 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 16 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Terri | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 40 | |
| 1930s | 180 | |
| 1940s | 4,153 | |
| 1950s | 46,431 | |
| 1960s | 63,738 | |
| 1970s | 19,603 | |
| 1980s | 7,727 | |
| 1990s | 2,631 | |
| 2000s | 1,008 | |
| 2010s | 430 | |
| 2020s | 154 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Terri was the 46th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1959 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Terri
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Robbinpeak 1959
- Robinpeak 1961
- Lauriepeak 1962
- Tamapeak 1959
- Roxanepeak 1956
- Teripeak 1960
- Kimpeak 1960
- Cindipeak 1958
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.