Meaning not yet researched.
Terrence: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 107 in 2025. Its best rank was #176 in 1950.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #176 in 1950; #1,600 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Terrence in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,600 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1950, at #176.
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Terrence: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 107 boys in 2025. Peak: #176 in 1950 · most boys in one year: 1,497 (1955).
In 2025, 107 US boys were named Terrence, making it the 1,600th most common boys’ name of the year, down 73 places from #1,527 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 116 boys named Terrence in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #176, reached in 1950. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,497, in 1955. For comparison, it was #814 in 2015 and #176 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Terrence in 132 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 10 babies. In all, 72,939 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 12,917 babies named Terrence.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,765 US boys were named Terrence; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 272. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,963 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Terrence ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,111 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Terence (34,460 babies since 1880), Terrance (70,921 babies since 1880) and Terance (2,840 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tarence, Terreance and Terriance 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: Tarence (537), Terreance (54), Terriance (24), Tyrence (23), Tereance (12), Terranc (6).
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 Terrence 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 11 | #1,111 | #644 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,185 | #651 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,263 | #636 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,446 | #703 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,524 | #621 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,640 | #968 |
| California | 10 | #1,673 | #1,207 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 107 | #1,600 |
| 2024 | — | — | 116 | #1,527 |
| 2023 | — | — | 134 | #1,389 |
| 2022 | — | — | 151 | #1,281 |
| 2021 | — | — | 148 | #1,287 |
| 2020 | — | — | 173 | #1,133 |
| 2019 | — | — | 184 | #1,090 |
| 2018 | — | — | 217 | #957 |
| 2017 | — | — | 263 | #842 |
| 2016 | — | — | 272 | #834 |
| 2015 | — | — | 279 | #814 |
| 2014 | — | — | 329 | #729 |
| 2013 | — | — | 329 | #716 |
| 2012 | — | — | 340 | #700 |
| 2011 | — | — | 364 | #646 |
| 2010 | — | — | 426 | #588 |
| 2009 | — | — | 456 | #579 |
| 2008 | — | — | 420 | #598 |
| 2007 | — | — | 449 | #572 |
| 2006 | — | — | 467 | #543 |
| 2005 | — | — | 403 | #578 |
| 2004 | — | — | 354 | #606 |
| 2003 | — | — | 440 | #530 |
| 2002 | — | — | 397 | #561 |
| 2001 | — | — | 431 | #520 |
| 2000 | — | — | 480 | #488 |
| 1999 | — | — | 497 | #461 |
| 1998 | — | — | 491 | #459 |
| 1997 | — | — | 581 | #402 |
| 1996 | — | — | 623 | #376 |
| 1995 | — | — | 652 | #367 |
| 1994 | — | — | 802 | #321 |
| 1993 | — | — | 915 | #298 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,638 | 1,055 | #271 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,194 | 1,053 | #258 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,121 | 1,055 | #255 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,611 | 1,162 | #233 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,175 | 1,241 | #210 |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,063 | 1,044 | #226 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,180 | 939 | #242 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,269 | 942 | #244 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,254 | 993 | #226 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,125 | 1,008 | #223 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,846 | 1,074 | #222 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,227 | 1,077 | #224 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,359 | 1,185 | #209 |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,076 | 1,192 | #202 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,624 | 1,116 | #201 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,054 | 1,152 | #198 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,887 | 1,164 | #191 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,830 | 1,149 | #196 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,740 | 1,106 | #199 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,466 | 1,166 | #194 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,226 | 1,161 | #201 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,291 | 1,239 | #198 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,558 | 1,460 | #187 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,398 | 1,218 | #205 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,979 | 1,132 | #205 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,639 | 1,065 | #211 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,831 | 1,090 | #211 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,528 | 1,029 | #226 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,682 | 1,271 | #214 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,843 | 1,013 | #239 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,830 | 987 | #248 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,792 | 999 | #249 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,150 | 1,014 | #251 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,596 | 1,104 | #242 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,489 | 1,218 | #216 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,321 | 1,304 | #206 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,804 | 1,451 | #194 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,762 | 1,497 | #181 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,939 | 1,440 | #184 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,562 | 1,217 | #200 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,448 | 1,164 | #195 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,786 | 1,171 | #193 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,642 | 1,267 | #176 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,837 | 1,177 | #181 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,121 | 1,204 | #177 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,316 | 1,100 | #188 |
| 1946 | — | — | 939 | #190 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,504 | 598 | #226 |
| 1944 | — | — | 615 | #223 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,307 | 627 | #229 |
| 1942 | — | — | 555 | #242 |
| 1941 | — | — | 444 | #271 |
| 1940 | — | — | 397 | #280 |
| 1939 | — | — | 354 | #294 |
| 1938 | — | — | 310 | #312 |
| 1937 | — | — | 246 | #347 |
| 1936 | — | — | 216 | #372 |
| 1935 | — | — | 171 | #428 |
| 1934 | — | — | 130 | #512 |
| 1933 | — | — | 112 | #539 |
| 1932 | — | — | 95 | #614 |
| 1931 | — | — | 72 | #726 |
| 1930 | — | — | 67 | #794 |
| 1929 | — | — | 72 | #751 |
| 1928 | — | — | 63 | #833 |
| 1927 | — | — | 63 | #857 |
| 1926 | — | — | 54 | #927 |
| 1925 | — | — | 68 | #808 |
| 1924 | — | — | 35 | #1,245 |
| 1923 | — | — | 61 | #880 |
| 1922 | — | — | 53 | #971 |
| 1921 | — | — | 60 | #908 |
| 1920 | — | — | 55 | #938 |
| 1919 | — | — | 30 | #1,316 |
| 1918 | — | — | 40 | #1,092 |
| 1917 | — | — | 25 | #1,432 |
| 1916 | — | — | 18 | #1,761 |
| 1915 | — | — | 26 | #1,337 |
| 1914 | — | — | 19 | #1,437 |
| 1913 | — | — | 18 | #1,246 |
| 1912 | — | — | 17 | #1,167 |
| 1911 | — | — | 11 | #1,112 |
| 1910 | — | — | 9 | #1,186 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,658 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,358 |
| 1907 | — | — | 7 | #1,190 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,199 |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,485 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #990 |
| 1897 | — | — | 11 | #675 |
| 1896 | — | — | 8 | #889 |
| 1895 | — | — | 6 | #1,070 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,219 |
| 1893 | — | — | 7 | #897 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #1,056 |
| 1890 | — | — | 9 | #733 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #1,101 |
| 1888 | — | — | 10 | #696 |
| 1886 | — | — | 10 | #644 |
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).