Terre — unisex name

What the Data Says About Terre

The Social Security Administration has registered 838 babies named Terre between 1942 and 1992, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Terre currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1992. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 55 babies received it in a single year. Terre is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 99 additional births since 1944.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Terre performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 354 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Terre shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 34 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Terre in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Terre 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 838 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.