Meaning not yet researched.
Teri: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #171 in 1960.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #171 in 1960; #13,071 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Teri in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,071 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #171.
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Teri: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #171 in 1960 · most girls in one year: 2,329 (1960).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Teri, making it the 13,071st most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,038 places from #11,033 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 9 girls named Teri in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #171, reached in 1960. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,329. For comparison, it was #8,401 in 2015 and #417 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Teri in 95 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 7 babies. In all, 44,171 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 16,822 babies named Teri.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 69 US girls were named Teri; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Terri (147,027 babies since 1880), Tera (9,918 babies since 1880), Terry (521,478 babies since 1880) and Terrie (20,068 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tyrie, Tyria and Teriah are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tyrie (892), Tyria (339), Teriah (84), Theria (22), Tieria (15), Tiria (5).
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 Teri in the open dataset we use.
Teri is listed as a nickname for Terri.
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 | 7 | #13,071 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,033 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #15,015 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,454 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,234 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,737 | — | — |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,899 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,298 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,787 | — | — |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,401 | — | — |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,608 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,882 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,555 | — | — |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,402 | — | — |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,485 | — | — |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,655 | — | — |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,639 | — | — |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,690 | — | — |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,788 | — | — |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,867 | — | — |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,085 | — | — |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 2002 | 49 | #3,010 | — | — |
| 2001 | 73 | #2,233 | — | — |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 1997 | 85 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1996 | 102 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1995 | 103 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1994 | 118 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 1993 | 136 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1992 | 175 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1991 | 170 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1990 | 235 | #840 | — | — |
| 1989 | 234 | #814 | — | — |
| 1988 | 268 | #708 | 6 | #7,166 |
| 1987 | 326 | #599 | — | — |
| 1986 | 360 | #558 | — | — |
| 1985 | 372 | #536 | 5 | #7,481 |
| 1984 | 448 | #467 | — | — |
| 1983 | 434 | #467 | — | — |
| 1982 | 465 | #459 | 7 | #5,564 |
| 1981 | 544 | #407 | 7 | #5,429 |
| 1980 | 500 | #433 | 7 | #5,465 |
| 1979 | 482 | #432 | — | — |
| 1978 | 587 | #363 | 8 | #4,524 |
| 1977 | 630 | #351 | — | — |
| 1976 | 662 | #335 | 10 | #3,693 |
| 1975 | 723 | #316 | 7 | #4,749 |
| 1974 | 777 | #303 | 5 | #5,924 |
| 1973 | 794 | #296 | — | — |
| 1972 | 1,002 | #264 | 10 | #3,323 |
| 1971 | 1,110 | #264 | 5 | #5,579 |
| 1970 | 1,075 | #274 | 6 | #4,678 |
| 1969 | 1,153 | #254 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,243 | #232 | 8 | #3,340 |
| 1967 | 1,303 | #227 | 6 | #3,924 |
| 1966 | 1,308 | #231 | — | — |
| 1965 | 1,460 | #223 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,713 | #208 | 7 | #3,569 |
| 1963 | 1,937 | #192 | 7 | #3,618 |
| 1962 | 2,075 | #181 | 10 | #2,833 |
| 1961 | 2,242 | #173 | 11 | #2,691 |
| 1960 | 2,329 | #171 | 10 | #2,854 |
| 1959 | 2,156 | #178 | 11 | #2,648 |
| 1958 | 1,882 | #188 | 6 | #3,898 |
| 1957 | 1,719 | #201 | 9 | #3,001 |
| 1956 | 1,601 | #203 | 9 | #2,943 |
| 1955 | 1,372 | #218 | 17 | #1,969 |
| 1954 | 936 | #276 | — | — |
| 1953 | 727 | #306 | 8 | #3,122 |
| 1952 | 630 | #324 | 5 | #4,209 |
| 1951 | 441 | #390 | — | — |
| 1950 | 370 | #417 | — | — |
| 1949 | 313 | #453 | — | — |
| 1948 | 298 | #464 | 7 | #3,296 |
| 1947 | 280 | #490 | — | — |
| 1946 | 206 | #550 | — | — |
| 1945 | 239 | #465 | — | — |
| 1944 | 121 | #680 | — | — |
| 1943 | 62 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1942 | 52 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,587 | — | — |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,428 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,857 | — | — |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,396 | — | — |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,093 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,017 | — | — |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,290 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,532 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,538 | — | — |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,347 | — | — |
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).