Terrion
Terrion was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,127 among boys’ names; 1,790 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,760 Americans named Terrion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terrion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Terrion mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Terrion is “a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Terrion?
#4,127 among boys’ names, 2025
Terrion fell from #2,676 in 2015 to #4,127 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 24.0 to 15.2 per million.
88 babies in 2006, the peak
Terrion peaked in 2006, when 88 babies were given it (83 boys, #1,711 among boys’ names). The 26 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,127 | 15.2 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,415 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,635 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 29 | #3,864 | 16.6 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,569 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,066 | 22.0 |
| 2019 | 32 | #3,557 | 17.8 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,595 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,061 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 50 | #2,547 | 26.3 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #2,676 | 24.0 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,250 | 31.2 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,707 | 23.3 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,232 | 31.1 |
| 2011 | 54 | #2,370 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,207 | 31.3 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,074 | 33.8 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,024 | 34.3 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,091 | 31.8 |
| 2006 | 83 | #1,711 | 40.4 |
| 2005 | 74 | #1,784 | 37.0 |
| 2004 | 69 | #1,810 | 34.8 |
| 2003 | 77 | #1,641 | 39.0 |
| 2002 | 56 | #1,992 | 28.8 |
| 2001 | 76 | #1,584 | 39.1 |
| 2000 | 57 | #1,868 | 29.0 |
| 1999 | 42 | #2,224 | 21.9 |
| 1998 | 38 | #2,343 | 19.9 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,156 | 21.7 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,823 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,749 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,197 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,932 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,441 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 33 | #2,216 | 16.3 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,751 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,593 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,680 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,914 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,806 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,707 | 3.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,203 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Terrion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,790 Americans recorded as Terrion, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 26 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Terrion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terrion, and how old are they?
1,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,790 Americans ever recorded as Terrion. The median Terrion alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,264 people named Terrion (154 women and girls, 1,110 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,619 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 255 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 458 |
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 Terrion born?
The states with the most babies named Terrion are Illinois, Tennessee and Missouri, with 65% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee and Missouri are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 272 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Tennessee | 102 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Missouri | 68 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 60 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 36 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 17 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Terrion is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Terrion is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1980 it was given 3.6 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 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 Terrion 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 9,813 babies since 1880, Terrion is the third most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 47 babies (55%), the most given that year.
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 Terrion
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 Terrion and names like it
- Compare Terrion and TerronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTerrion peaked in 2006.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terrion since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Terrion: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Terrion.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Terrion alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.