Terrance
Terrance was given to 109 boys in 2025, #1,570 among boys’ names; 70,921 Americans have been recorded with it since 1895 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 59,000 Americans named Terrance and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 33 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terrance by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Terrance mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Terrance is “a male given name from Latin, variant of Terence.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Terrance?
#1,570 among boys’ names, 2025
Terrance fell from #675 in 2015 to #1,570 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.20 to 0.06 per 1,000.
1,440 babies in 1988, the peak
Terrance peaked in 1988, when 1,440 babies were given it (1,424 boys, #193 among boys’ names). The 109 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 109 | #1,570 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 152 | #1,293 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 155 | #1,251 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 180 | #1,153 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 203 | #1,058 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 226 | #963 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 230 | #941 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 277 | #812 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 307 | #766 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 332 | #737 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 377 | #675 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 365 | #689 | 0.19 |
| 2013 | 409 | #613 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 435 | #588 | 0.23 |
| 2011 | 429 | #586 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 446 | #570 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 562 | #486 | 0.28 |
| 2008 | 512 | #527 | 0.25 |
| 2007 | 569 | #473 | 0.27 |
| 2006 | 583 | #464 | 0.28 |
| 2005 | 562 | #455 | 0.28 |
| 2004 | 535 | #472 | 0.27 |
| 2003 | 552 | #458 | 0.28 |
| 2002 | 563 | #440 | 0.29 |
| 2001 | 580 | #423 | 0.30 |
| 2000 | 628 | #402 | 0.32 |
| 1999 | 688 | #376 | 0.36 |
| 1998 | 680 | #374 | 0.36 |
| 1997 | 713 | #355 | 0.38 |
| 1996 | 731 | #340 | 0.39 |
| 1995 | 840 | #315 | 0.44 |
| 1994 | 993 | #275 | 0.51 |
| 1993 | 1,058 | #273 | 0.54 |
| 1992 | 1,275 | #233 | 0.64 |
| 1991 | 1,346 | #221 | 0.67 |
| 1990 | 1,223 | #236 | 0.60 |
| 1989 | 1,361 | #208 | 0.68 |
| 1988 | 1,424 | #193 | 0.74 |
| 1987 | 1,133 | #216 | 0.61 |
| 1986 | 1,134 | #213 | 0.62 |
| 1985 | 1,188 | #203 | 0.64 |
| 1984 | 1,214 | #198 | 0.67 |
| 1983 | 1,194 | #197 | 0.67 |
| 1982 | 1,267 | #198 | 0.70 |
| 1981 | 1,276 | #195 | 0.71 |
| 1980 | 1,379 | #179 | 0.77 |
| 1979 | 1,346 | #179 | 0.78 |
| 1978 | 1,283 | #183 | 0.78 |
| 1977 | 1,237 | #192 | 0.75 |
| 1976 | 1,199 | #185 | 0.76 |
| 1975 | 1,179 | #192 | 0.76 |
| 1974 | 1,067 | #208 | 0.68 |
| 1973 | 1,187 | #191 | 0.76 |
| 1972 | 1,109 | #206 | 0.68 |
| 1971 | 1,100 | #212 | 0.62 |
| 1970 | 1,177 | #213 | 0.63 |
| 1969 | 982 | #233 | 0.55 |
| 1968 | 1,023 | #221 | 0.59 |
| 1967 | 989 | #222 | 0.57 |
| 1966 | 962 | #224 | 0.54 |
| 1965 | 946 | #240 | 0.51 |
| 1964 | 1,120 | #224 | 0.56 |
| 1963 | 809 | #270 | 0.40 |
| 1962 | 745 | #282 | 0.36 |
| 1961 | 758 | #281 | 0.36 |
| 1960 | 725 | #291 | 0.34 |
| 1959 | 827 | #275 | 0.39 |
| 1958 | 917 | #257 | 0.43 |
| 1957 | 1,039 | #238 | 0.48 |
| 1956 | 1,056 | #226 | 0.50 |
| 1955 | 1,142 | #213 | 0.55 |
| 1954 | 1,120 | #209 | 0.55 |
| 1953 | 966 | #217 | 0.49 |
| 1952 | 901 | #221 | 0.46 |
| 1951 | 912 | #215 | 0.48 |
| 1950 | 954 | #208 | 0.53 |
| 1949 | 829 | #222 | 0.47 |
| 1948 | 866 | #215 | 0.49 |
| 1947 | 791 | #230 | 0.43 |
| 1946 | 630 | #245 | 0.39 |
| 1945 | 459 | #282 | 0.34 |
| 1944 | 472 | #272 | 0.35 |
| 1943 | 462 | #284 | 0.32 |
| 1942 | 394 | #309 | 0.29 |
| 1941 | 300 | #333 | 0.24 |
| 1940 | 254 | #360 | 0.22 |
| 1939 | 254 | #348 | 0.23 |
| 1938 | 186 | #419 | 0.17 |
| 1937 | 147 | #460 | 0.14 |
| 1936 | 136 | #485 | 0.13 |
| 1935 | 102 | #574 | 0.10 |
| 1934 | 95 | #610 | 0.09 |
| 1933 | 56 | #833 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 57 | #850 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 42 | #1,046 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 45 | #1,035 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 34 | #1,212 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 33 | #1,269 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 45 | #1,056 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 30 | #1,352 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,421 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 19 | #1,887 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,637 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,585 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,387 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,636 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,406 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,151 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,804 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,759 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,294 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,878 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,248 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,608 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,969 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,567 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,222 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Terrance a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 70,921 Americans recorded as Terrance, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 109 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 Terrance: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terrance, and how old are they?
59,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 70,921 Americans ever recorded as Terrance. The median Terrance alive today is 45 years old; half are between 33 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 51,100 people named Terrance (345 women and girls, 50,755 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 61,106 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,060 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11,500 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 17,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,890 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,300 |
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).
Where are babies named Terrance born?
The states with the most babies named Terrance are Texas, Georgia and Florida, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,403 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 10 | #915 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,341 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,007 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,103 | 1.1× |
| Mississippi | 5 | #610 | 1.8× |
Where Terrance is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Terrance is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Terrance with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 181,214 babies since 1880, Terrance is the second most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 109 of their 263 babies (41%), the most given that year.
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 Terrance
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 Terrance and names like it
- Compare Terrance and TerrenceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTerrance peaked in 1988.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terrance since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Terrance.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Terrance alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.