Terri — #5022 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Terri

The Social Security Administration has registered 146,095 babies named Terri between 1922 and 2024, spanning 103 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Terri currently holds the #5022 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1959, when 8,783 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Terri performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 63,738 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Terri shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 14,503 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Terri in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Terri 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 146,095 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.