Tericka
Tericka was last recorded in 2001, when 6 babies were given it; 151 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tericka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tericka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,180, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1994, the peak
Tericka peaked in 1994, when 15 girls were given it, #6,291 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #15,180 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,868 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,380 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,949 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,475 | 4.6 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,291 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,595 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,017 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,277 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,173 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 10 | #7,981 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,633 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,938 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,083 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,336 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,367 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,923 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,424 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,037 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tericka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tericka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tericka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tericka, and how old are they?
An estimated 147 Americans named Tericka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 32 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 169 people named Tericka (169 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 148 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Tericka?
Tericka is a less common spelling of Terrica: SSA has recorded 151 Tericka and 1,406 Terrica since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,211 babies since 1880, Tericka is the sixth most given (3.6% 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 Tericka
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 Tericka and names like it
- Compare Tericka and TerricaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTericka peaked in 1994.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Tericka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tericka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.