Terrica
Terrica was last recorded in 2014, when 8 babies were given it; 1,406 Americans have been recorded with it between 1959 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Terrica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 32 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terrica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terrica?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,967, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
68 babies in 1990, the peak
Terrica peaked in 1990, when 68 girls were given it, #2,004 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #12,967 | 4.5 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,846 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,583 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,580 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,431 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,704 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,813 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,389 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,530 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 20 | #6,031 | 10.9 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 15 | #7,407 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,552 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,960 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,074 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,343 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,885 | 16.7 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,818 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,414 | 18.8 |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,375 | 30.8 |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,374 | 29.8 |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,541 | 27.1 |
| 1991 | 57 | #2,284 | 30.4 |
| 1990 | 68 | #2,004 | 35.8 |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,138 | 31.5 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,886 | 37.1 |
| 1987 | 56 | #2,020 | 32.2 |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,888 | 35.0 |
| 1985 | 57 | #1,945 | 33.1 |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,835 | 35.0 |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,129 | 28.1 |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,147 | 28.3 |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,259 | 27.0 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,125 | 29.5 |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,469 | 23.7 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,566 | 22.2 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,603 | 21.5 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,538 | 21.8 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,043 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,844 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,777 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,895 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,096 | 6.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,934 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,733 | 3.6 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,121 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Terrica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Terrica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Terrica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terrica, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,406 Americans ever recorded as Terrica. The median Terrica alive today is 38 years old; half are between 32 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 1,182 people named Terrica (1,173 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,374 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 275 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 818 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 257 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8 |
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 Terrica born?
The states with the most babies named Terrica are Tennessee, Georgia and Louisiana, with 64% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee and Louisiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 140 | not ranked | 4.7× |
| Georgia | 110 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Louisiana | 76 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Florida | 61 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 49 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Mississippi | 49 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Terrica is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Terrica is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1959 it was given 4.7 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 Terrica 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,013 babies since 1880, Terrica is the most given (35% of them).
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 Terrica
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 Terrica and names like it
- Compare Terrica and TericaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTerrica peaked in 1990.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terrica since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Terrica.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Terrica alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.