Tery
Tery was last recorded in 1991, when 8 babies were given it; 164 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tery by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tery?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,449, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1955, the peak
Tery peaked in 1955, when 17 babies were given it (11 boys, #2,537 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #6,449 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 7 | #5,308 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,769 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 7 | #4,334 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #5,367 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 6 | #4,361 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,520 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 5 | #4,477 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 7 | #3,618 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,574 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8 | #5,264 | 8 | #3,326 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,649 | 9 | #3,049 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,518 | 9 | #3,023 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,043 | 6 | #3,898 |
| 1957 | under 5 | 8 | #3,228 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,897 | |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,769 | 11 | #2,537 |
| 1954 | under 5 | 6 | #3,784 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 5 | #4,144 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Tery a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 164 Americans recorded as Tery, 21% are girls and 79% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tery: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tery, and how old are they?
An estimated 130 Americans named Tery and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 57 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 499 people named Tery (184 women and girls, 315 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 139 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Tery?
Tery is a less common spelling of Terry: SSA has recorded 164 Tery and 521,478 Terry since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 568,439 babies since 1880, Tery is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 518 babies recorded by SSA was a Tery (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Tery
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Kem | 1,033 |
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 Tery and names like it
- Compare Tery and TerryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sTery peaked in 1955.
- The top names of 1955The year the most babies were named Tery.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tery alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.