Teryl — unisex name

What the Data Says About Teryl

The Social Security Administration has registered 779 babies named Teryl between 1939 and 1993, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Teryl currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1993. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 35 babies received it in a single year. Teryl is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 263 additional births since 1943.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Teryl performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 285 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Teryl shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 43 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Teryl in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Teryl 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 779 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.