Meaning not yet researched.
Terrance: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 109 in 2025. Its best rank was #179 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #179 in 1980; #1,570 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Terrance in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,570 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #179.
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Terrance: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 109 boys in 2025. Peak: #179 in 1980 · most boys in one year: 1,424 (1988).
In 2025, 109 US boys were named Terrance, making it the 1,570th most common boys’ name of the year, down 277 places from #1,293 in 2024. That is 43 fewer than the 152 boys named Terrance in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #179, reached in 1980. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,424, in 1988. For comparison, it was #675 in 2015 and #208 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Terrance in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1895 with 5 babies. In all, 70,921 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 12,713 babies named Terrance.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,171 US boys were named Terrance; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 332. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,670 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Terrance ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #610 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Terrence (72,939 babies since 1880), Terence (34,460 babies since 1880) and Terance (2,840 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tyrance 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: Tyrance (43).
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 Terrance in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 5 | #610 | #327 |
| Georgia | 10 | #915 | #496 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,007 | #635 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,103 | #590 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,341 | #464 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,403 | #873 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 109 | #1,570 |
| 2024 | — | — | 152 | #1,293 |
| 2023 | — | — | 155 | #1,251 |
| 2022 | — | — | 180 | #1,153 |
| 2021 | — | — | 203 | #1,058 |
| 2020 | — | — | 226 | #963 |
| 2019 | — | — | 230 | #941 |
| 2018 | — | — | 277 | #812 |
| 2017 | — | — | 307 | #766 |
| 2016 | — | — | 332 | #737 |
| 2015 | — | — | 377 | #675 |
| 2014 | — | — | 365 | #689 |
| 2013 | — | — | 409 | #613 |
| 2012 | — | — | 435 | #588 |
| 2011 | — | — | 429 | #586 |
| 2010 | — | — | 446 | #570 |
| 2009 | — | — | 562 | #486 |
| 2008 | — | — | 512 | #527 |
| 2007 | — | — | 569 | #473 |
| 2006 | — | — | 583 | #464 |
| 2005 | — | — | 562 | #455 |
| 2004 | — | — | 535 | #472 |
| 2003 | — | — | 552 | #458 |
| 2002 | — | — | 563 | #440 |
| 2001 | — | — | 580 | #423 |
| 2000 | — | — | 628 | #402 |
| 1999 | — | — | 688 | #376 |
| 1998 | — | — | 680 | #374 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,980 | 713 | #355 |
| 1996 | — | — | 731 | #340 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,439 | 840 | #315 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,684 | 993 | #275 |
| 1993 | — | — | 1,058 | #273 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,637 | 1,275 | #233 |
| 1991 | — | — | 1,346 | #221 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,843 | 1,223 | #236 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,530 | 1,361 | #208 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,298 | 1,424 | #193 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,756 | 1,133 | #216 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,088 | 1,134 | #213 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,840 | 1,188 | #203 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,516 | 1,214 | #198 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,938 | 1,194 | #197 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,845 | 1,267 | #198 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,872 | 1,276 | #195 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,135 | 1,379 | #179 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,407 | 1,346 | #179 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,195 | 1,283 | #183 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,634 | 1,237 | #192 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,995 | 1,199 | #185 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,957 | 1,179 | #192 |
| 1974 | 24 | #3,001 | 1,067 | #208 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,824 | 1,187 | #191 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,395 | 1,109 | #206 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,359 | 1,100 | #212 |
| 1970 | 23 | #3,020 | 1,177 | #213 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,094 | 982 | #233 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,046 | 1,023 | #221 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,196 | 989 | #222 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,541 | 962 | #224 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,676 | 946 | #240 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,815 | 1,120 | #224 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,511 | 809 | #270 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,801 | 745 | #282 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,212 | 758 | #281 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,199 | 725 | #291 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,805 | 827 | #275 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,528 | 917 | #257 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,673 | 1,039 | #238 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,144 | 1,056 | #226 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,466 | 1,142 | #213 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,689 | 1,120 | #209 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,799 | 966 | #217 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,661 | 901 | #221 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,566 | 912 | #215 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,217 | 954 | #208 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,610 | 829 | #222 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,823 | 866 | #215 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,683 | 791 | #230 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,376 | 630 | #245 |
| 1945 | — | — | 459 | #282 |
| 1944 | — | — | 472 | #272 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,778 | 462 | #284 |
| 1942 | — | — | 394 | #309 |
| 1941 | — | — | 300 | #333 |
| 1940 | — | — | 254 | #360 |
| 1939 | — | — | 254 | #348 |
| 1938 | — | — | 186 | #419 |
| 1937 | — | — | 147 | #460 |
| 1936 | — | — | 136 | #485 |
| 1935 | — | — | 102 | #574 |
| 1934 | — | — | 95 | #610 |
| 1933 | — | — | 56 | #833 |
| 1932 | — | — | 57 | #850 |
| 1931 | — | — | 42 | #1,046 |
| 1930 | — | — | 45 | #1,035 |
| 1929 | — | — | 34 | #1,212 |
| 1928 | — | — | 33 | #1,269 |
| 1927 | — | — | 45 | #1,056 |
| 1926 | — | — | 30 | #1,352 |
| 1925 | — | — | 28 | #1,421 |
| 1924 | — | — | 19 | #1,887 |
| 1923 | — | — | 23 | #1,638 |
| 1922 | — | — | 24 | #1,585 |
| 1921 | — | — | 30 | #1,387 |
| 1920 | — | — | 23 | #1,636 |
| 1919 | — | — | 27 | #1,407 |
| 1918 | — | — | 15 | #2,152 |
| 1917 | — | — | 18 | #1,805 |
| 1916 | — | — | 18 | #1,760 |
| 1915 | — | — | 12 | #2,295 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,879 |
| 1913 | — | — | 8 | #2,249 |
| 1912 | — | — | 11 | #1,609 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,970 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,568 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,223 |
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).