Meaning not yet researched.
Terran: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,694 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,694 in 1992; #6,105 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Terran in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,105 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #1,694.
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Terran: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,694 in 1992 · most boys in one year: 51 (1992).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Terran, making it the 6,105th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,112 places from #7,217 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 12 boys named Terran in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,694, reached in 1992. That year also had the most boys given the name: 51. For comparison, it was #3,675 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Terran in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,482, reached in 1985. That year also had the most girls given the name: 40. For comparison, it was #10,801 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Terran in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 5 babies. In all, 2,102 US babies have been given the name, 27% of them girls and 73% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 550 babies named Terran.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 205 US boys were named Terran; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Terron (2,526 babies since 1880), Tyran (2,335 babies since 1880), Terrion (1,790 babies since 1880) and Teryn (1,634 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Terriann, Teriann and Terryann 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: Terriann (505), Teriann (176), Terryann (118), Terraine (10), Terrayne (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 Terran 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 | — | — | 15 | #6,105 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #7,217 |
| 2023 | — | — | 14 | #6,473 |
| 2022 | — | — | 15 | #6,121 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,916 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,262 |
| 2019 | — | — | 28 | #3,888 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,677 | 36 | #3,232 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,208 | 18 | #5,277 |
| 2016 | — | — | 23 | #4,453 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,801 | 30 | #3,675 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,340 | 29 | #3,682 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,566 | 31 | #3,487 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,851 | 32 | #3,441 |
| 2011 | — | — | 29 | #3,689 |
| 2010 | — | — | 33 | #3,368 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,585 | 31 | #3,540 |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,026 | 26 | #4,025 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,462 | 39 | #3,019 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,207 | 42 | #2,781 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,916 | 29 | #3,443 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,675 | 41 | #2,634 |
| 2003 | 12 | #9,007 | 31 | #3,108 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,180 | 36 | #2,678 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,688 | 37 | #2,612 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,820 | 40 | #2,422 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,643 | 45 | #2,135 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,219 | 50 | #1,955 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,301 | 44 | #2,056 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,096 | 36 | #2,292 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,205 | 29 | #2,621 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,229 | 29 | #2,608 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,515 | 32 | #2,393 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,987 | 51 | #1,694 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,204 | 26 | #2,676 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,515 | 31 | #2,300 |
| 1989 | 18 | #5,042 | 24 | #2,684 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,587 | 25 | #2,430 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,974 | 29 | #2,112 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,179 | 28 | #2,091 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,482 | 29 | #2,012 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,978 | 16 | #2,942 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,272 | 22 | #2,335 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,248 | 24 | #2,202 |
| 1981 | — | — | 21 | #2,412 |
| 1980 | 5 | #12,013 | 13 | #3,412 |
| 1979 | — | — | 21 | #2,367 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,644 | 17 | #2,656 |
| 1977 | — | — | 20 | #2,351 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,168 | 17 | #2,588 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,904 | 12 | #3,223 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,930 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,669 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,397 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,314 | 9 | #3,627 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,223 | 8 | #3,805 |
| 1969 | — | — | 11 | #2,840 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,341 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,753 | 5 | #4,481 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,509 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,466 | 5 | #4,373 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,791 | 5 | #4,603 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,529 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,212 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,728 |
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).