Terry — #1185 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Terry

The Social Security Administration has registered 424,330 babies named Terry between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Terry currently holds the #1185 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 15,618 babies received it in a single year. Terry is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 96,944 additional births since 1892.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Terry performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 140,724 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Terry shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 27,819 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Terry in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Terry 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 424,330 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.