Terance
Terance was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 2,840 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,460 Americans named Terance and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 34 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terance by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terance?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,251, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
76 babies in 1991, the peak
Terance peaked in 1991, when 76 boys were given it, #1,290 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #8,251 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 5 | #14,110 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,597 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,865 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,922 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 10 | #8,088 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,757 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,605 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,976 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 10 | #8,052 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 17 | #5,370 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,214 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,447 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,661 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,522 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #6,032 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,778 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,769 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,841 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,394 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,596 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #4,022 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,706 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 20 | #4,044 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,356 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,078 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,195 | 21.2 |
| 1996 | 40 | #2,133 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 38 | #2,169 | 20.0 |
| 1994 | 45 | #1,883 | 23.3 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,039 | 20.4 |
| 1992 | 48 | #1,768 | 24.0 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,290 | 37.6 |
| 1990 | 63 | #1,413 | 30.7 |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,367 | 32.5 |
| 1988 | 72 | #1,196 | 37.6 |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,278 | 31.6 |
| 1986 | 57 | #1,294 | 31.0 |
| 1985 | 57 | #1,277 | 30.8 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,188 | 33.2 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,236 | 31.2 |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,190 | 33.6 |
| 1981 | 53 | #1,268 | 29.6 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,185 | 33.6 |
| 1979 | 47 | #1,368 | 27.3 |
| 1978 | 66 | #1,076 | 40.2 |
| 1977 | 60 | #1,126 | 36.5 |
| 1976 | 49 | #1,264 | 31.2 |
| 1975 | 43 | #1,342 | 27.5 |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,194 | 31.2 |
| 1973 | 56 | #1,091 | 35.9 |
| 1972 | 37 | #1,411 | 22.8 |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,136 | 30.0 |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,205 | 25.8 |
| 1969 | 46 | #1,165 | 25.7 |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,129 | 25.9 |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,041 | 28.7 |
| 1966 | 60 | #940 | 33.6 |
| 1965 | 59 | #964 | 31.7 |
| 1964 | 61 | #979 | 30.6 |
| 1963 | 44 | #1,172 | 21.7 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,276 | 18.4 |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,203 | 20.7 |
| 1960 | 46 | #1,165 | 21.6 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,194 | 20.1 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,301 | 17.0 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,231 | 19.0 |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,138 | 21.3 |
| 1955 | 40 | #1,195 | 19.4 |
| 1954 | 40 | #1,198 | 19.6 |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,276 | 17.7 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,455 | 14.4 |
| 1951 | 19 | #1,768 | 10.1 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,459 | 14.5 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,442 | 6.2 |
| 1948 | 20 | #1,699 | 11.4 |
| 1947 | 17 | #1,909 | 9.3 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,897 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,295 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,079 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,512 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,136 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,462 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,888 | 4.3 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,982 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Terance a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Terance has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Terance: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terance, and how old are they?
2,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 2,840 Americans ever recorded as Terance. The median Terance alive today is 45 years old; half are between 34 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 2,023 people named Terance (22 women and girls, 2,001 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,538 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 446 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 731 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 844 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 329 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 96 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Terance born?
The states with the most babies named Terance are Texas, California and New York, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 114 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 71 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 71 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 58 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 57 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 35 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 32 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 32 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Terance with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Terance?
Terance is a less common spelling of Terrance: SSA has recorded 2,840 Terance and 70,921 Terrance since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 181,214 babies since 1880, Terance is the fourth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 263 babies recorded by SSA was a Terance (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Terance
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Terance and names like it
- Compare Terance and TerranceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTerance peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terance since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Terance.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Terance alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.