Tersia — girls' name
30 babies named Tersia in U.S. Social Security records since 1960, with the highest year being 1960. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
63% of everyone ever named Tersia was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Tersia in 1960 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tersia
The Social Security Administration has registered 30 babies named Tersia between 1960 and 1975, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tersia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1975. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tersia performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 19 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Tersia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tersia 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 30 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.
Tersia at a glance
Last recorded 1975Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tersia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1975–1960
- Peak year (1960)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 16 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1975.
30 total births across 16 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1960 with 8 births in a single year.
Tersia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 19 births that decade — 63% of Tersia's all-time total
Tersia decade highlights
- Peak decade 19 births
- Runner-up 11 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Tersia's strongest decade
19 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 63% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1960–1975 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.