Terrace — boys' name

What the Data Says About Terrace

The Social Security Administration has registered 714 babies named Terrace between 1943 and 2011, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Terrace currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Terrace is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 107 additional births since 1956.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Terrace performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 205 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Terrace shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Terrace in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Terrace in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 714 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.