Terris — boys' name

What the Data Says About Terris

The Social Security Administration has registered 837 babies named Terris between 1945 and 2017, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Terris currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Terris is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 143 additional births since 1946.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Terris performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 193 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Terris shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Terris in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Terris 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 837 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.