Terrill
Terrill was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 5,079 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,050 Americans named Terrill and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 37 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terrill by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terrill?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,194, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
132 babies in 1975, the peak
Terrill peaked in 1975, when 132 babies were given it (122 boys, #756 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | under 5 | 6 | #12,194 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 10 | #8,188 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 11 | #7,706 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 8 | #9,599 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 20 | #4,838 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 9 | #8,804 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 8 | #9,564 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 15 | #6,033 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 13 | #6,679 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 14 | #6,280 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | under 5 | 17 | #5,457 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 21 | #4,600 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 21 | #4,664 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 19 | #4,960 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 29 | #3,700 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 27 | #3,907 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 16 | #5,733 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 13 | #6,570 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 31 | #3,442 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 20 | #4,444 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 22 | #4,113 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 24 | #3,713 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 28 | #3,249 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 27 | #3,307 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 35 | #2,664 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 35 | #2,548 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 42 | #2,191 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 35 | #2,389 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 43 | #2,039 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,254 | 48 | #1,830 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 44 | #1,920 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 42 | #1,960 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 64 | #1,445 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 89 | #1,176 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 95 | #1,096 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 81 | #1,189 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 99 | #977 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 79 | #1,086 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,682 | 65 | #1,185 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,339 | 49 | #1,411 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 57 | #1,223 | |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,947 | 63 | #1,142 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 66 | #1,132 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,042 | 85 | #985 |
| 1980 | 7 | #9,016 | 80 | #1,016 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 101 | #870 | |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,905 | 113 | #802 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,378 | 114 | #804 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,572 | 104 | #823 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,953 | 122 | #756 |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,112 | 85 | #880 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,673 | 94 | #824 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,774 | 73 | #951 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,498 | 103 | #796 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,780 | 78 | #909 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,399 | 67 | #941 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,747 | 59 | #956 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,943 | 72 | #847 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,458 | 36 | #1,276 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,528 | 40 | #1,223 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,862 | 39 | #1,258 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,321 | 44 | #1,173 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,803 | 34 | #1,360 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,452 | 37 | #1,318 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,199 | 36 | #1,334 |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,281 | 36 | #1,318 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,373 | 45 | #1,159 |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,270 | 45 | #1,160 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,147 | 50 | #1,080 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,151 | 50 | #1,073 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,373 | 49 | #1,076 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,294 | 50 | #1,031 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,194 | 54 | #978 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,240 | 62 | #899 |
| 1950 | 40 | #1,471 | 74 | #795 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,061 | 77 | #788 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,179 | 89 | #710 |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,374 | 69 | #837 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,716 | 41 | #1,091 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,442 | 46 | #959 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,497 | 44 | #987 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,241 | 60 | #868 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,303 | 38 | #1,117 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,529 | 27 | #1,295 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,714 | 35 | #1,130 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,877 | 29 | #1,235 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,154 | 15 | #1,890 |
| 1937 | under 5 | 10 | #2,464 | |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,789 | 10 | #2,437 |
| 1935 | under 5 | 10 | #2,513 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 10 | #2,544 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 7 | #3,249 | |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,362 | 8 | #3,064 |
| 1931 | under 5 | 12 | #2,317 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 5 | #4,476 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #4,142 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 5 | #4,886 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 6 | #4,259 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 5 | #4,908 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 5 | #4,737 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 5 | #4,515 |
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 Terrill a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,079 Americans recorded as Terrill, 14% are girls and 86% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Terrill: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terrill, and how old are they?
4,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 5,079 Americans ever recorded as Terrill. The median Terrill alive today is 50 years old; half are between 37 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 3,621 people named Terrill (620 women and girls, 3,001 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,266 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 158 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 960 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,320 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,040 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 416 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 151 |
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 Terrill born?
The states with the most babies named Terrill are California, Illinois and Michigan, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 266 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 161 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 109 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 106 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 84 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 65 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 56 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 53 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 49 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 46 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Terrill 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 51,730 babies since 1880, Terrill is the second most given (9.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 118 babies recorded by SSA was a Terrill (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 Terrill
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 Terrill and names like it
- Compare Terrill and TerrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTerrill peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terrill since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Terrill.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Terrill alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.