Terren
Terren was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 728 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terren?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #14,112, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1997, the peak
Terren peaked in 1997, when 32 babies were given it (27 boys, #2,891 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #14,112 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 7 | #10,681 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 9 | #8,802 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 5 | #13,879 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 12 | #7,049 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 9 | #8,663 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 10 | #8,053 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 13 | #6,557 | |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,845 | 13 | #6,592 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,351 | 8 | #9,501 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | under 5 | 19 | #5,020 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 9 | #8,915 | |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,023 | 10 | #8,236 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 14 | #6,230 | |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,954 | 20 | #4,655 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 15 | #5,539 | |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,671 | 15 | #5,456 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,315 | 15 | #5,230 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 19 | #4,303 | |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,382 | 17 | #4,653 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,873 | 17 | #4,539 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,272 | 13 | #5,282 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,316 | 19 | #3,826 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,952 | 27 | #2,891 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 24 | #3,093 | |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,683 | 20 | #3,412 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 10 | #5,823 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 18 | #3,638 | |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,398 | 12 | #4,827 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,186 | 13 | #4,449 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 14 | #4,145 | |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,406 | 18 | #3,310 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,337 | 12 | #4,134 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,095 | 11 | #4,201 |
| 1986 | under 5 | 9 | #4,805 | |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,057 | 8 | #5,098 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,299 | 9 | #4,515 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,665 | 14 | #3,212 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,508 | 16 | #2,961 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 11 | #3,828 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 7 | #5,465 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 8 | #4,523 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 5 | #4,475 |
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 Terren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 728 Americans recorded as Terren, 23% are girls and 77% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Terren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terren, and how old are they?
An estimated 707 Americans named Terren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 734 people named Terren (239 women and girls, 495 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 701 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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, Terren is the sixth most given (7.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 47 babies recorded by SSA was a Terren (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 Terren
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 Terren and names like it
- Compare Terren and TerronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTerren peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terren since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Terren.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Terren alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.