Terel
Terel was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 145 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #14,035, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1995, the peak
Terel peaked in 1995, when 14 boys were given it, #4,476 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #14,035 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #8,120 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,461 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,247 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,887 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,476 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 12 | #5,077 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,999 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,826 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,133 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 8 | #5,688 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,697 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,871 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,513 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,428 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,313 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,462 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Terel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Terel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Terel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terel, and how old are they?
An estimated 139 Americans named Terel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 30 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 207 people named Terel (23 women and girls, 184 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 141 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Terel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Terel?
Terel is a less common spelling of Terrell: SSA has recorded 145 Terel and 38,087 Terrell since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,751 babies since 1880, Terel is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 118 babies recorded by SSA was a Terel (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 Terel
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 Terel and names like it
- Compare Terel and TerrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTerel peaked in 1995.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Terel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Terel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.