Teri
Teri was given to 7 girls in 2025, #13,067 among girls’ names; 44,171 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 38,300 Americans named Teri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 53 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Teri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Teri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Teri is “a diminutive of the female given name Teresa.”
A spelling variant of Terry, from Teresa.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Teri?
#13,067 among girls’ names, 2025
Teri fell from #8,397 in 2015 to #13,067 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 4.4 per million.
2,339 babies in 1960, the peak
Teri peaked in 1960, when 2,339 babies were given it (2,329 girls, #171 among girls’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #13,067 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,028 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #15,009 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,449 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,229 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,731 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,894 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,294 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,782 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,397 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 16 | #7,605 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,877 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,552 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,398 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,482 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,652 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,638 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,687 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,787 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,863 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,081 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,224 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 49 | #3,006 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 73 | #2,229 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,271 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,956 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,952 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 85 | #1,779 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 102 | #1,561 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 103 | #1,517 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 118 | #1,389 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 136 | #1,261 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 175 | #1,050 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 170 | #1,067 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 235 | #839 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 234 | #812 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 268 | #708 | 0.15 |
| 1987 | 326 | #599 | 0.19 |
| 1986 | 360 | #558 | 0.21 |
| 1985 | 372 | #536 | 0.22 |
| 1984 | 448 | #467 | 0.27 |
| 1983 | 434 | #467 | 0.26 |
| 1982 | 465 | #459 | 0.27 |
| 1981 | 544 | #407 | 0.33 |
| 1980 | 500 | #433 | 0.30 |
| 1979 | 482 | #432 | 0.30 |
| 1978 | 587 | #363 | 0.38 |
| 1977 | 630 | #351 | 0.41 |
| 1976 | 662 | #335 | 0.45 |
| 1975 | 723 | #316 | 0.50 |
| 1974 | 777 | #303 | 0.53 |
| 1973 | 794 | #296 | 0.54 |
| 1972 | 1,002 | #264 | 0.66 |
| 1971 | 1,110 | #264 | 0.67 |
| 1970 | 1,075 | #274 | 0.61 |
| 1969 | 1,153 | #254 | 0.68 |
| 1968 | 1,243 | #232 | 0.76 |
| 1967 | 1,303 | #227 | 0.79 |
| 1966 | 1,308 | #231 | 0.77 |
| 1965 | 1,460 | #223 | 0.83 |
| 1964 | 1,713 | #208 | 0.90 |
| 1963 | 1,937 | #192 | 1.0 |
| 1962 | 2,075 | #181 | 1.1 |
| 1961 | 2,242 | #173 | 1.1 |
| 1960 | 2,329 | #171 | 1.2 |
| 1959 | 2,156 | #178 | 1.1 |
| 1958 | 1,882 | #188 | 0.94 |
| 1957 | 1,719 | #201 | 0.84 |
| 1956 | 1,601 | #203 | 0.80 |
| 1955 | 1,372 | #218 | 0.70 |
| 1954 | 936 | #276 | 0.48 |
| 1953 | 727 | #306 | 0.39 |
| 1952 | 630 | #324 | 0.34 |
| 1951 | 441 | #389 | 0.24 |
| 1950 | 370 | #416 | 0.22 |
| 1949 | 313 | #452 | 0.18 |
| 1948 | 298 | #464 | 0.18 |
| 1947 | 280 | #490 | 0.16 |
| 1946 | 206 | #550 | 0.13 |
| 1945 | 239 | #465 | 0.18 |
| 1944 | 121 | #680 | 0.09 |
| 1943 | 62 | #1,018 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 52 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,799 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,587 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,727 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,426 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,855 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,394 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,092 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,015 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,288 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,530 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,536 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,345 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Teri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Teri has been given almost only to girls: 214 boys in 95 years of records.
Girls and boys named Teri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Teri, and how old are they?
38,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 44,171 Americans ever recorded as Teri. The median Teri alive today is 62 years old; half are between 53 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 38,647 people named Teri (38,431 women and girls, 216 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 39,991 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 300 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19,100 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13,700 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 715 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 107 |
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 Teri born?
The states with the most babies named Teri are California, Texas and Ohio, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7,274 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Texas | 2,676 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 2,471 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 2,304 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 2,222 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 1,808 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Washington | 1,441 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,299 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Wisconsin | 1,225 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Iowa | 1,153 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Teri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Teri is most over-represented in Utah: since 1920 it was given 2.3 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 girls’ 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 Teri with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 240,353 babies since 1880, Teri is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 100 babies (7.0%), the third 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 Teri
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 Teri and names like it
- Compare Teri and TerriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTeri peaked in 1960.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Teri since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Teri.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Teri alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.