Terin
Terin was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 524 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,973, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1982, the peak
Terin peaked in 1982, when 36 babies were given it (31 girls, #2,949 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #18,973 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,097 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,210 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 10 | #7,926 | |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,847 | 6 | #11,312 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,926 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,622 | 9 | #7,760 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,879 | 11 | #6,475 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,381 | 7 | #9,134 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,667 | 10 | #6,774 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 7 | #12,578 | 9 | #7,049 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,211 | 12 | #5,422 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,295 | 6 | #9,135 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,088 | 5 | #10,375 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 12 | #5,084 | |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,470 | 13 | #4,758 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,455 | 9 | #6,167 |
| 1992 | 13 | #7,031 | 18 | #3,583 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,221 | 14 | #4,192 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,110 | 8 | #6,349 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,502 | 6 | #7,806 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,048 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,266 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,562 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,237 | 5 | #7,476 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,606 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,794 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,949 | 5 | #7,266 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,362 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,281 | 6 | #6,161 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,108 | 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 Terin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 524 Americans recorded as Terin, 65% are girls and 35% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Terin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terin, and how old are they?
An estimated 509 Americans named Terin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 27 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 577 people named Terin (354 women and girls, 223 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 514 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,140 babies since 1880, Terin is the third most given (17% 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 Terin
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 Terin and names like it
- Compare Terin and TerynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTerin peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terin since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Terin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Terin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.