Terre
Terre was last recorded in 1997, when 7 babies were given it; 937 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terre by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terre?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,398, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
60 babies in 1956, the peak
Terre peaked in 1956, when 60 babies were given it (55 girls, #1,434 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #8,019 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,398 | 5 | #9,668 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #8,022 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,679 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,217 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,363 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,988 | 5 | #6,973 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,350 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,845 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,070 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 8 | #7,097 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,613 | 9 | #3,806 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,544 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,441 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,095 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,469 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,051 | 5 | #4,957 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,763 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,637 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,934 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,528 | 6 | #3,886 |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,106 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,483 | 6 | #4,004 |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,109 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 31 | #2,145 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,881 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,534 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,848 | 7 | #3,529 |
| 1957 | 34 | #1,895 | 6 | #3,950 |
| 1956 | 55 | #1,434 | 5 | #4,406 |
| 1955 | 46 | #1,509 | 10 | #2,741 |
| 1954 | 40 | #1,620 | 5 | #4,312 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,507 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,886 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,058 | 6 | #3,671 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,244 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,126 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,119 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,855 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,376 | 6 | #3,489 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,898 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 7 | #4,021 | 6 | #3,398 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,843 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,590 | 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 Terre a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 937 Americans recorded as Terre, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Terre: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terre, and how old are they?
An estimated 759 Americans named Terre and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 58 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,020 people named Terre (854 women and girls, 166 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 812 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 240,231 babies since 1880, Terre is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 100 babies recorded by SSA was a Terre (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 Terre
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 Terre and names like it
- Compare Terre and TerriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sTerre peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terre since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Terre.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Terre alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.