Teren
Teren was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 179 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Teren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Teren?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,994, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1993, the peak
Teren peaked in 1993, when 18 babies were given it (13 boys, #4,662 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | under 5 | 5 | #13,994 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 6 | #12,050 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 5 | #14,374 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,810 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 5 | #13,024 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 10 | #6,982 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 6 | #10,409 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 8 | #8,121 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 10 | #6,463 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,379 | 7 | #8,361 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #8,017 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 6 | #8,767 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,593 | 13 | #4,662 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #9,666 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #9,478 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 8 | #6,167 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #8,019 | |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,785 | 6 | #6,637 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,575 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,297 | 5 | #7,221 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,171 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,155 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,878 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,800 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Teren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 179 Americans recorded as Teren, 32% are girls and 68% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Teren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Teren, and how old are they?
An estimated 171 Americans named Teren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 26 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 321 people named Teren (138 women and girls, 183 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 173 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Teren 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 Teren?
Teren is a less common spelling of Terren: SSA has recorded 179 Teren and 728 Terren since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,306 babies since 1880, Teren is the eighth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 21 babies recorded by SSA was a Teren (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 Teren
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jonte | 1,489 |
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 Teren and names like it
- Compare Teren and TerrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTeren peaked in 1993.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Teren.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Teren alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.