Terica
Terica was last recorded in 2009, when 6 babies were given it; 1,038 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,000 Americans named Terica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 33 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terica?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,107, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 1984, the peak
Terica peaked in 1984, when 56 girls were given it, #1,902 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #17,107 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,209 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,856 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,846 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,797 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,176 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,097 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,039 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,776 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,406 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 16 | #6,339 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,142 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,565 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,202 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,525 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,571 | 17.1 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,913 | 22.2 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,086 | 19.7 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,892 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,649 | 23.3 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,633 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,485 | 24.2 |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,417 | 24.5 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,650 | 21.5 |
| 1984 | 56 | #1,902 | 33.3 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,778 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,640 | 21.3 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,406 | 24.6 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,697 | 21.1 |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,216 | 28.0 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,851 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,212 | 27.4 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,719 | 19.8 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,627 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,440 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,543 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,878 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,575 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,779 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,552 | 4.1 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,552 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,500 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,441 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,117 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,924 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Terica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Terica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Terica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terica, and how old are they?
1,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,038 Americans ever recorded as Terica. The median Terica alive today is 40 years old; half are between 33 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 889 people named Terica (885 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,011 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 22 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 249 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 582 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 148 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,211 babies since 1880, Terica is the second most given (25% of them).
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 Terica
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 Terica and names like it
- Compare Terica and TerricaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTerica peaked in 1984.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terica since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Terica.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Terica alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.