Teryl
Teryl was last recorded in 1999, when 6 babies were given it; 1,042 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Teryl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Teryl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,602, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 1956, the peak
Teryl peaked in 1956, when 44 babies were given it (35 girls, #1,831 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | under 5 | 6 | #9,784 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #11,130 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,602 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,402 | 8 | #6,628 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,810 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 6 | #7,163 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,189 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,790 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #7,479 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,303 | 7 | #5,509 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 5 | #11,925 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,846 | 6 | #6,316 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,359 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 9 | #4,370 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,340 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,502 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #5,530 | |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,907 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,329 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,034 | 5 | #5,800 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,506 | 9 | #3,583 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,960 | 6 | #4,863 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,854 | 5 | #5,368 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,170 | 5 | #4,958 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,979 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,197 | 11 | #2,593 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,742 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,037 | 7 | #3,511 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,498 | 10 | #2,830 |
| 1963 | 35 | #2,012 | 8 | #3,295 |
| 1962 | 34 | #2,022 | 7 | #3,599 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,601 | 9 | #3,074 |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,240 | 14 | #2,303 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,103 | 12 | #2,518 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,443 | 6 | #3,899 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,981 | 7 | #3,526 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,831 | 9 | #2,945 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,832 | 9 | #2,950 |
| 1954 | 28 | #2,018 | 9 | #2,927 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,167 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,118 | 9 | #2,853 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,965 | 6 | #3,674 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,759 | 7 | #3,288 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,693 | 7 | #3,271 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,855 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,983 | 8 | #3,070 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,309 | 7 | #3,138 |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,580 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 7 | #4,023 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,306 | 7 | #3,204 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,301 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,878 | under 5 |
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 Teryl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,042 Americans recorded as Teryl, 75% are girls and 25% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Teryl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Teryl, and how old are they?
An estimated 827 Americans named Teryl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 57 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,034 people named Teryl (748 women and girls, 286 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 891 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above 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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Teryl
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Teryl and names like it
- Compare Teryl and DannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sTeryl peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Teryl since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Teryl.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Teryl alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.