Terren — boys' name
559 babies named Terren in U.S. Social Security records since 1966, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
30% of everyone ever named Terren was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Terren in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Terren
The Social Security Administration has registered 559 babies named Terren between 1966 and 2022, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Terren currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Terren is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 169 additional births since 1982.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Terren performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 170 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Terren shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 19 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Terren in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Terren 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 559 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.
Terren at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Terren popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1966
- Peak year (1997)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 57 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
559 total births across 57 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 27 births in a single year.
Terren popularity over time — girls
169 total births recorded since 1982 (Terren as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Terren accounts for 23% of total recorded use across both genders.
Terren by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 170 births that decade — 30% of Terren's all-time total
Terren decade highlights
- Peak decade 170 births
- Runner-up 151 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Terren's strongest decade
170 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Terren by state
Where Terren concentrates geographically — total births since 1966
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 19 | 3.4% |
19 of 559 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 3.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1966–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.