Meaning not yet researched.
Terell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #943 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #943 in 1985; #13,683 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Terell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,683 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #943.
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Terell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #943 in 1985 · most boys in one year: 107 (1994).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Terell, making it the 13,683rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 6,467 places from #7,216 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 12 boys named Terell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #943, reached in 1985. The most boys given the name in a single year was 107, in 1994. For comparison, it was #3,869 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Terell in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 6 babies. In all, 2,733 US babies have been given the name, 1.4% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 878 babies named Terell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 136 US boys were named Terell; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Terrell (38,087 babies since 1880), Tyrell (16,215 babies since 1880), Terrill (5,079 babies since 1880) and Tyrel (3,426 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Terell in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 5 | #13,683 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #7,216 |
| 2023 | — | — | 6 | #12,096 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #7,211 |
| 2021 | — | — | 13 | #6,636 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #10,485 |
| 2019 | — | — | 12 | #7,128 |
| 2018 | — | — | 17 | #5,518 |
| 2017 | — | — | 26 | #4,094 |
| 2016 | — | — | 26 | #4,085 |
| 2015 | — | — | 28 | #3,869 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,773 |
| 2013 | — | — | 25 | #4,051 |
| 2012 | — | — | 29 | #3,700 |
| 2011 | — | — | 34 | #3,297 |
| 2010 | — | — | 30 | #3,619 |
| 2009 | — | — | 46 | #2,697 |
| 2008 | — | — | 44 | #2,783 |
| 2007 | — | — | 35 | #3,242 |
| 2006 | — | — | 56 | #2,279 |
| 2005 | — | — | 52 | #2,293 |
| 2004 | — | — | 58 | #2,070 |
| 2003 | — | — | 49 | #2,229 |
| 2002 | — | — | 61 | #1,866 |
| 2001 | — | — | 64 | #1,775 |
| 2000 | — | — | 59 | #1,828 |
| 1999 | — | — | 83 | #1,418 |
| 1998 | — | — | 82 | #1,405 |
| 1997 | — | — | 57 | #1,727 |
| 1996 | — | — | 64 | #1,571 |
| 1995 | — | — | 74 | #1,379 |
| 1994 | — | — | 107 | #1,088 |
| 1993 | — | — | 101 | #1,127 |
| 1992 | — | — | 105 | #1,075 |
| 1991 | — | — | 102 | #1,081 |
| 1990 | — | — | 103 | #1,048 |
| 1989 | — | — | 100 | #1,036 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,302 | 85 | #1,082 |
| 1987 | — | — | 82 | #1,061 |
| 1986 | — | — | 88 | #990 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,340 | 94 | #943 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,301 | 66 | #1,121 |
| 1983 | — | — | 63 | #1,141 |
| 1982 | — | — | 42 | #1,512 |
| 1981 | — | — | 49 | #1,361 |
| 1980 | 5 | #12,009 | 50 | #1,339 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,824 | 26 | #2,041 |
| 1978 | — | — | 39 | #1,505 |
| 1977 | — | — | 30 | #1,774 |
| 1976 | — | — | 32 | #1,674 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,465 | 20 | #2,278 |
| 1974 | — | — | 18 | #2,350 |
| 1973 | — | — | 15 | #2,596 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,529 | 10 | #3,322 |
| 1971 | — | — | 17 | #2,360 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,875 |
| 1969 | — | — | 13 | #2,536 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #3,085 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,480 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,508 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,372 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,950 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).