Terrie
Terrie was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 20,068 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,600 Americans named Terrie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 59 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terrie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Terrie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Terrie 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 Terrie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,522, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
1,133 babies in 1961, the peak
Terrie peaked in 1961, when 1,133 babies were given it (1,114 girls, #274 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #17,522 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,733 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,898 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,627 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,804 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,955 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,254 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,817 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,910 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,672 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 14 | #7,958 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,787 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,041 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,112 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,166 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,944 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,360 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,863 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,764 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,674 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,572 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 20 | #5,033 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,780 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,789 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 25 | #4,001 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,207 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,121 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,862 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 83 | #1,489 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 77 | #1,501 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 76 | #1,508 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 93 | #1,344 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 93 | #1,352 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 113 | #1,188 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 110 | #1,197 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 134 | #1,024 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 158 | #901 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 160 | #857 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 165 | #826 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 199 | #724 | 0.14 |
| 1973 | 236 | #641 | 0.16 |
| 1972 | 267 | #598 | 0.18 |
| 1971 | 340 | #539 | 0.20 |
| 1970 | 405 | #495 | 0.23 |
| 1969 | 421 | #469 | 0.25 |
| 1968 | 461 | #445 | 0.28 |
| 1967 | 471 | #433 | 0.29 |
| 1966 | 533 | #397 | 0.31 |
| 1965 | 620 | #366 | 0.35 |
| 1964 | 796 | #337 | 0.42 |
| 1963 | 928 | #305 | 0.48 |
| 1962 | 1,021 | #283 | 0.52 |
| 1961 | 1,114 | #274 | 0.55 |
| 1960 | 1,110 | #269 | 0.55 |
| 1959 | 1,056 | #271 | 0.52 |
| 1958 | 1,018 | #277 | 0.51 |
| 1957 | 919 | #299 | 0.45 |
| 1956 | 859 | #304 | 0.43 |
| 1955 | 862 | #296 | 0.44 |
| 1954 | 712 | #316 | 0.37 |
| 1953 | 543 | #363 | 0.29 |
| 1952 | 500 | #372 | 0.27 |
| 1951 | 372 | #432 | 0.21 |
| 1950 | 321 | #449 | 0.19 |
| 1949 | 306 | #458 | 0.18 |
| 1948 | 271 | #493 | 0.16 |
| 1947 | 292 | #481 | 0.16 |
| 1946 | 241 | #505 | 0.15 |
| 1945 | 160 | #581 | 0.12 |
| 1944 | 116 | #699 | 0.09 |
| 1943 | 114 | #724 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 78 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,266 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,438 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,469 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,938 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,990 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,942 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,909 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,765 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,170 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,361 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,459 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #3,031 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,205 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,714 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,742 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,644 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,750 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,503 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Terrie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 20,068 Americans recorded as Terrie, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Terrie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terrie, and how old are they?
16,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 20,068 Americans ever recorded as Terrie. The median Terrie alive today is 65 years old; half are between 59 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 15,787 people named Terrie (15,522 women and girls, 265 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 17,638 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 320 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10,800 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,510 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 819 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 156 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 20 |
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 Terrie born?
The states with the most babies named Terrie are California, Texas and Ohio, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,092 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 1,529 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 1,025 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 1,021 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 739 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 682 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 668 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 616 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 564 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 538 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Terrie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Terrie is most over-represented in Utah: since 1918 it was given 1.8 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 Terrie 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 229,952 babies since 1880, Terrie is the third most given (8.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 100 babies recorded by SSA was a Terrie (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 Terrie
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 Terrie and names like it
- Compare Terrie and TerriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTerrie peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terrie since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Terrie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Terrie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.