Terryl — boys' name

What the Data Says About Terryl

The Social Security Administration has registered 740 babies named Terryl between 1938 and 2008, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Terryl currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Terryl is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 717 additional births since 1935.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Terryl performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 160 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Terryl shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Terryl in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Terryl 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 740 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.