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Teryl

girls’ name · 75%boys’ name · 25%FadedCompare

Teryl is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
195635 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1939
1,042people given the name
Babies named Teryl, by year of birthgirlsboys
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The story in the numbers

779 girls have been named Teryl in the United States since 1939, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 35 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 35 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 1950s alone account for 37%.

Teryl is used for both sexes: 25% of its bearers are boys (263), most of them born around 1960.

By decade

Decadegirls named Teryl
1930s5
1940s147
1950s285
1960s217
1970s73
1980s42
1990s10

In 1956, its biggest year

Teryl was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1956 were Mary, Debra, Linda, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1956.

Names that rose and fell with Teryl

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.