Terril
Terril was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 596 Americans have been recorded with it between 1932 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terril by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terril?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,132, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1948, the peak
Terril peaked in 1948, when 22 babies were given it (14 boys, #2,107 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #12,132 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 6 | #9,517 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #10,655 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 7 | #7,709 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #10,096 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 7 | #7,317 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 12 | #4,725 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 10 | #5,326 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 11 | #4,777 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 11 | #4,417 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,857 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 6 | #6,639 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 7 | #5,706 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 7 | #5,507 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 9 | #4,454 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 6 | #6,315 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #6,172 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 7 | #5,307 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,694 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 10 | #3,692 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,394 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #5,174 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 11 | #3,191 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 8 | #3,926 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 8 | #3,931 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 9 | #3,490 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 9 | #3,289 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 9 | #3,085 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 9 | #2,965 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 9 | #2,963 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 13 | #2,358 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 8 | #3,259 | |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,843 | 5 | #4,568 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,572 | |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,792 | 7 | #3,624 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,646 | 13 | #2,412 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,122 | 13 | #2,400 |
| 1958 | under 5 | 7 | #3,530 | |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,022 | 14 | #2,265 |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,896 | |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,768 | 12 | #2,421 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,690 | 8 | #3,145 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,980 | 7 | #3,399 |
| 1952 | under 5 | 10 | #2,663 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 8 | #3,040 | |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,694 | 9 | #2,754 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,977 | 11 | #2,443 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,174 | 14 | #2,107 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,726 | 9 | #2,842 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,626 | 16 | #1,878 |
| 1945 | under 5 | 16 | #1,764 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 7 | #3,080 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 10 | #2,543 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 10 | #2,509 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 10 | #2,474 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 13 | #2,069 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 8 | #2,847 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #4,145 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 6 | #3,736 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Terril a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 596 Americans recorded as Terril, 14% are girls and 86% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Terril: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terril, and how old are they?
An estimated 432 Americans named Terril and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 43 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 595 people named Terril (150 women and girls, 445 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 475 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Terril rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Terril?
Terril is a less common spelling of Terrill: SSA has recorded 596 Terril and 5,079 Terrill since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 51,745 babies since 1880, Terril is the seventh most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 118 babies recorded by SSA was a Terril (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 Terril
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1930-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Terryl | 1,457 |
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 Terril and names like it
- Compare Terril and TerrillBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sTerril peaked in 1948.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terril since 1910.
- The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Terril.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Terril alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.