Terri
Terri was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,302 among girls’ names; 147,027 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 126,000 Americans named Terri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 57 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Terri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Terri is “a female given name; a spelling variant of Terry, diminutive of Teresa.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Terri?
#6,302 among girls’ names, 2025
Terri fell from #3,695 in 2015 to #6,302 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.5 to 11.8 per million.
8,810 babies in 1959, the peak
Terri peaked in 1959, when 8,810 babies were given it (8,783 girls, #46 among girls’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,302 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,130 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,136 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,459 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,495 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,443 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,145 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,349 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,547 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,846 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,695 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,222 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,845 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,263 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,599 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,300 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,356 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,828 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,390 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,204 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,086 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 96 | #1,959 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 131 | #1,494 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 144 | #1,349 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 129 | #1,465 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 136 | #1,376 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 178 | #1,118 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 176 | #1,097 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 200 | #980 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 229 | #868 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 214 | #885 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 256 | #795 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 278 | #747 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 305 | #709 | 0.17 |
| 1991 | 369 | #613 | 0.20 |
| 1990 | 426 | #553 | 0.22 |
| 1989 | 438 | #530 | 0.24 |
| 1988 | 480 | #476 | 0.27 |
| 1987 | 541 | #412 | 0.31 |
| 1986 | 630 | #372 | 0.37 |
| 1985 | 711 | #334 | 0.41 |
| 1984 | 796 | #299 | 0.47 |
| 1983 | 906 | #267 | 0.54 |
| 1982 | 1,090 | #234 | 0.64 |
| 1981 | 1,066 | #234 | 0.64 |
| 1980 | 1,068 | #242 | 0.64 |
| 1979 | 1,128 | #231 | 0.70 |
| 1978 | 1,116 | #222 | 0.73 |
| 1977 | 1,389 | #192 | 0.91 |
| 1976 | 1,388 | #184 | 0.95 |
| 1975 | 1,601 | #165 | 1.1 |
| 1974 | 1,826 | #151 | 1.2 |
| 1973 | 2,089 | #137 | 1.4 |
| 1972 | 2,495 | #124 | 1.6 |
| 1971 | 3,166 | #115 | 1.9 |
| 1970 | 3,402 | #113 | 1.9 |
| 1969 | 3,903 | #93 | 2.3 |
| 1968 | 4,267 | #83 | 2.6 |
| 1967 | 4,523 | #77 | 2.7 |
| 1966 | 4,921 | #72 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 5,373 | #69 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 7,144 | #62 | 3.8 |
| 1963 | 7,704 | #58 | 4.0 |
| 1962 | 8,433 | #54 | 4.3 |
| 1961 | 8,730 | #51 | 4.3 |
| 1960 | 8,743 | #49 | 4.3 |
| 1959 | 8,783 | #46 | 4.3 |
| 1958 | 8,184 | #51 | 4.1 |
| 1957 | 6,972 | #68 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 5,744 | #81 | 2.9 |
| 1955 | 5,153 | #85 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 4,130 | #100 | 2.1 |
| 1953 | 2,725 | #130 | 1.4 |
| 1952 | 2,071 | #158 | 1.1 |
| 1951 | 1,563 | #185 | 0.87 |
| 1950 | 1,106 | #228 | 0.65 |
| 1949 | 938 | #246 | 0.55 |
| 1948 | 849 | #260 | 0.50 |
| 1947 | 780 | #274 | 0.44 |
| 1946 | 510 | #330 | 0.32 |
| 1945 | 389 | #351 | 0.30 |
| 1944 | 242 | #464 | 0.18 |
| 1943 | 189 | #549 | 0.14 |
| 1942 | 143 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1941 | 62 | #940 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 51 | #1,008 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 41 | #1,148 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,411 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,842 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 16 | #2,019 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,085 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,414 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,967 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,476 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,458 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,626 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,413 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,682 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,995 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,807 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,700 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Terri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Terri has been given almost only to girls: 914 boys in 101 years of records.
Girls and boys named Terri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terri, and how old are they?
126,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 147,027 Americans ever recorded as Terri. The median Terri alive today is 63 years old; half are between 57 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 121,174 people named Terri (120,436 women and girls, 738 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 132,209 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 625 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 74,500 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 40,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,610 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 455 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Terri born?
The states with the most babies named Terri are California, Texas and Ohio, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14,519 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 9,510 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 9,310 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 7,530 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 7,202 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 6,383 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 6,154 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 5,290 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 4,350 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 4,194 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Terri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Terri is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1922 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Terri with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 240,353 babies since 1880, Terri is the most given (61% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 100 babies (19%), the second most given that year.
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 Terri
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 Terri and names like it
- Compare Terri and TeriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sTerri peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terri since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Terri.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Terri alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.