Terral
Terral was last recorded in 2003, when 5 babies were given it; 606 Americans have been recorded with it between 1924 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terral by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terral?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,568, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1978, the peak
Terral peaked in 1978, when 22 boys were given it, #2,196 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #12,568 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,782 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #11,126 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #8,018 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,913 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,305 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,534 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,595 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,187 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,324 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 11 | #4,776 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,690 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,540 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,803 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,777 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,665 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,143 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,933 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,826 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,233 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #4,044 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 22 | #2,196 | 13.4 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,650 | 10.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,409 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,408 | 7.0 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,923 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,582 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,860 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,677 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 10 | #3,042 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,300 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,924 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,124 | 8.4 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,763 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,569 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 17 | #2,037 | 8.4 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,490 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,528 | 5.6 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,669 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,516 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 9 | #3,013 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,363 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,944 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,038 | 7.8 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,719 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,695 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,690 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,330 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,753 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,014 | 8.5 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,138 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,063 | 8.2 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,021 | 8.6 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,297 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,842 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,714 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,990 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,463 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,107 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,450 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,708 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,296 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Terral a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 606 Americans recorded as Terral, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Terral: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terral, and how old are they?
An estimated 464 Americans named Terral and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 41 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 529 people named Terral (96 women and girls, 433 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 499 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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 51,745 babies since 1880, Terral is the sixth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 118 babies recorded by SSA was a Terral (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Terral
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 Terral and names like it
- Compare Terral and TerrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTerral peaked in 1978.
- Arkansas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terral since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Terral.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Terral alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.