Terrin
Terrin was last recorded in 2020, when 8 babies were given it; 970 Americans have been recorded with it between 1959 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terrin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terrin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,464, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1985, the peak
Terrin peaked in 1985, when 48 babies were given it (14 boys, #3,370 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | under 5 | 8 | #9,464 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 8 | #9,641 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 8 | #9,565 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #14,044 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 9 | #8,728 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #13,844 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 12 | #6,970 | |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,847 | 7 | #10,633 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,353 | 9 | #8,677 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,345 | 12 | #7,033 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 8 | #13,581 | 19 | #5,078 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,525 | 11 | #7,644 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,342 | 13 | #6,571 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,343 | 11 | #7,362 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,943 | 22 | #4,170 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,928 | 17 | #4,979 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,726 | 17 | #4,785 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,243 | 16 | #4,883 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,947 | 14 | #5,359 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,874 | 14 | #5,266 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,291 | 18 | #4,136 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,982 | 24 | #3,285 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,577 | 17 | #4,033 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,769 | 28 | #2,736 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,477 | 15 | #4,247 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,225 | 23 | #3,092 |
| 1993 | 11 | #8,009 | 27 | #2,678 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,694 | 20 | #3,319 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,164 | 11 | #5,053 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,527 | 20 | #3,151 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,983 | 12 | #4,490 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,871 | 13 | #3,887 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,903 | 11 | #4,202 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,880 | 14 | #3,423 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,794 | 14 | #3,370 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,324 | 10 | #4,174 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,259 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,518 | 8 | #4,951 |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,022 | 5 | #7,180 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #6,163 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,695 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 8 | #4,380 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,467 | 6 | #5,395 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,925 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 6 | #5,025 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #5,366 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 7 | #3,907 | |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,171 | under 5 |
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 Terrin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 970 Americans recorded as Terrin, 41% are girls and 59% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Terrin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terrin, and how old are they?
An estimated 940 Americans named Terrin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 22 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 936 people named Terrin (421 women and girls, 515 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 942 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,064 babies since 1880, Terrin is the fifth most given (9.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 47 babies recorded by SSA was a Terrin (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 Terrin
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 Terrin and names like it
- Compare Terrin and TerronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTerrin peaked in 1985.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terrin since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Terrin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Terrin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.