Terran
Terran was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,102 among boys’ names; 2,102 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,030 Americans named Terran and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 18 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terran by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terran?
#6,102 among boys’ names, 2025
Terran fell from #3,674 in 2015 to #6,102 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.7 to 8.8 per million.
69 babies in 1985, the peak
Terran peaked in 1985, when 69 babies were given it (29 boys, #2,011 among boys’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 15 | #6,102 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 12 | #7,212 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 14 | #6,468 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 15 | #6,116 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 20 | #4,912 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 24 | #4,258 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 28 | #3,885 | |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,672 | 36 | #3,229 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,202 | 18 | #5,273 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 23 | #4,452 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,796 | 30 | #3,674 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,334 | 29 | #3,680 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,561 | 31 | #3,485 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,844 | 32 | #3,438 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 29 | #3,688 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 33 | #3,367 | |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,579 | 31 | #3,538 |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,022 | 26 | #4,022 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,456 | 39 | #3,017 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,204 | 42 | #2,780 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,909 | 29 | #3,439 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,670 | 41 | #2,630 |
| 2003 | 12 | #9,002 | 31 | #3,104 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,174 | 36 | #2,674 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,681 | 37 | #2,607 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,812 | 40 | #2,418 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,637 | 45 | #2,132 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,212 | 50 | #1,952 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,296 | 44 | #2,053 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,091 | 36 | #2,287 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,200 | 29 | #2,616 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,224 | 29 | #2,603 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,509 | 32 | #2,387 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,981 | 51 | #1,689 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,198 | 26 | #2,670 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,510 | 31 | #2,295 |
| 1989 | 18 | #5,036 | 24 | #2,678 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,582 | 25 | #2,425 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,971 | 29 | #2,108 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,177 | 28 | #2,089 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,481 | 29 | #2,011 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,977 | 16 | #2,941 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,271 | 22 | #2,334 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,247 | 24 | #2,201 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 21 | #2,411 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #12,011 | 13 | #3,411 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 21 | #2,366 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,642 | 17 | #2,655 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 20 | #2,351 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,166 | 17 | #2,587 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,902 | 12 | #3,221 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 13 | #2,928 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 9 | #3,667 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 7 | #4,395 | |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,312 | 9 | #3,625 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,222 | 8 | #3,803 |
| 1969 | under 5 | 11 | #2,839 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 8 | #3,340 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,752 | 5 | #4,480 |
| 1966 | under 5 | 7 | #3,508 | |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,465 | 5 | #4,372 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,790 | 5 | #4,602 |
| 1958 | under 5 | 7 | #3,528 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 5 | #4,210 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 5 | #3,727 |
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 Terran a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,102 Americans recorded as Terran, 27% are girls and 73% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Terran: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terran, and how old are they?
2,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,102 Americans ever recorded as Terran. The median Terran alive today is 29 years old; half are between 18 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,792 people named Terran (571 women and girls, 1,221 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,953 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 206 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 738 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 728 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 332 |
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 10,064 babies since 1880, Terran is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 47 babies (32%), again the second most given.
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 Terran
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 Terran and names like it
- Compare Terran and TerronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTerran peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terran since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Terran.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Terran alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.