Terell
Terell was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,679 among boys’ names; 2,733 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,620 Americans named Terell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 24 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terell?
#13,679 among boys’ names, 2025
Terell fell from #3,868 in 2015 to #13,679 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 2.9 per million.
107 babies in 1994, the peak
Terell peaked in 1994, when 107 boys were given it, #1,084 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,679 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,211 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 6 | #12,091 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,206 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,631 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,479 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 12 | #7,123 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,514 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,090 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,084 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,868 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,770 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 25 | #4,049 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,697 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,296 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,618 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 46 | #2,696 | 23.2 |
| 2008 | 44 | #2,782 | 21.6 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,240 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 56 | #2,278 | 27.2 |
| 2005 | 52 | #2,289 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,066 | 29.2 |
| 2003 | 49 | #2,225 | 24.8 |
| 2002 | 61 | #1,862 | 31.4 |
| 2001 | 64 | #1,771 | 32.9 |
| 2000 | 59 | #1,824 | 30.0 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,415 | 43.2 |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,402 | 42.9 |
| 1997 | 57 | #1,724 | 30.2 |
| 1996 | 64 | #1,568 | 33.8 |
| 1995 | 74 | #1,374 | 38.9 |
| 1994 | 107 | #1,084 | 55.4 |
| 1993 | 101 | #1,123 | 51.5 |
| 1992 | 105 | #1,072 | 52.6 |
| 1991 | 102 | #1,075 | 50.5 |
| 1990 | 103 | #1,044 | 50.1 |
| 1989 | 100 | #1,032 | 50.0 |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,080 | 44.4 |
| 1987 | 82 | #1,060 | 43.9 |
| 1986 | 88 | #989 | 47.8 |
| 1985 | 94 | #943 | 50.9 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,120 | 36.6 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,141 | 35.1 |
| 1982 | 42 | #1,511 | 23.1 |
| 1981 | 49 | #1,361 | 27.4 |
| 1980 | 50 | #1,339 | 28.0 |
| 1979 | 26 | #2,041 | 15.1 |
| 1978 | 39 | #1,505 | 23.8 |
| 1977 | 30 | #1,774 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 32 | #1,673 | 20.4 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,277 | 12.8 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,348 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,594 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,320 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,359 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,874 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,535 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 9 | #3,084 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,479 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,507 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,371 | 2.7 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,949 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Terell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,733 Americans recorded as Terell, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Terell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terell, and how old are they?
2,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,733 Americans ever recorded as Terell. The median Terell alive today is 33 years old; half are between 24 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,899 people named Terell (74 women and girls, 1,825 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,598 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 296 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,280 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 824 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 215 |
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 Terell born?
The states with the most babies named Terell are New York, Florida and California, with 55% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 317 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Florida | 163 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 85 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 76 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 71 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 44 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 41 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 39 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 36 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 34 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Terell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Terell is most over-represented in New York: since 1957 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Terell 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 Terell?
Terell is a less common spelling of Terrell: SSA has recorded 2,733 Terell and 38,087 Terrell since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 51,745 babies since 1880, Terell is the fourth most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 118 babies (4.2%), the second most given that year.
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 Terell
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 Terell and names like it
- Compare Terell and TerrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTerell peaked in 1994.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terell since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Terell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Terell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.