Terril — boys' name

What the Data Says About Terril

The Social Security Administration has registered 513 babies named Terril between 1932 and 2001, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Terril currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2001. The name reached its historical peak in 1945, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Terril is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 83 additional births since 1946.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Terril performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 116 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Terril shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Terril in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Terril 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 513 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.