Meaning not yet researched.
Terri: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #46 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #46 in 1959; #6,303 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Terri in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,303 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #46.
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Terri: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 girls in 2025. Peak: #46 in 1959 · most girls in one year: 8,783 (1959).
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Terri, making it the 6,303rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,170 places from #5,133 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 26 girls named Terri in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #46, reached in 1959. That year also had the most girls given the name: 8,783. For comparison, it was #3,696 in 2015 and #228 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Terri in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1922 with 5 babies. In all, 147,027 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 64,033 babies named Terri.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 325 US girls were named Terri; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Terry (521,478 babies since 1880), Teri (44,171 babies since 1880), Terrie (20,068 babies since 1880) and Terra (15,434 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Thyri, Terriah and Tearia are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Teri, Terrie and Terry.
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: Thyri (357), Terriah (165), Tearia (140), Tyri (108), Tiari (86), Tierria (78), Theori (74), Tyari (50), Tearria (44), Tearii (39), Tyrei (22), Thiri (16).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,303 | — | — |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,133 | — | — |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,141 | — | — |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,461 | — | — |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,499 | — | — |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,443 | — | — |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,146 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,350 | — | — |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,548 | — | — |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,846 | — | — |
| 2015 | 42 | #3,696 | — | — |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,224 | — | — |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,847 | — | — |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,264 | — | — |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,600 | — | — |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,301 | — | — |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,357 | — | — |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,828 | 5 | #14,384 |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,390 | — | — |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,204 | — | — |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,087 | 5 | #13,166 |
| 2004 | 96 | #1,960 | — | — |
| 2003 | 131 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 2002 | 144 | #1,350 | 11 | #6,483 |
| 2001 | 129 | #1,466 | 6 | #10,419 |
| 2000 | 136 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1999 | 178 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1998 | 176 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1997 | 200 | #981 | 8 | #7,210 |
| 1996 | 229 | #868 | 5 | #10,385 |
| 1995 | 214 | #888 | 8 | #6,921 |
| 1994 | 256 | #796 | 8 | #6,913 |
| 1993 | 278 | #748 | 8 | #6,765 |
| 1992 | 305 | #709 | 8 | #6,634 |
| 1991 | 369 | #613 | — | — |
| 1990 | 426 | #554 | 19 | #3,295 |
| 1989 | 438 | #530 | 10 | #5,130 |
| 1988 | 480 | #476 | 12 | #4,140 |
| 1987 | 541 | #412 | 8 | #5,408 |
| 1986 | 630 | #372 | 11 | #4,100 |
| 1985 | 711 | #334 | 13 | #3,578 |
| 1984 | 796 | #299 | 13 | #3,438 |
| 1983 | 906 | #267 | 11 | #3,851 |
| 1982 | 1,090 | #234 | 11 | #3,936 |
| 1981 | 1,066 | #234 | 14 | #3,197 |
| 1980 | 1,068 | #242 | 10 | #4,101 |
| 1979 | 1,128 | #231 | 17 | #2,765 |
| 1978 | 1,116 | #222 | 12 | #3,380 |
| 1977 | 1,389 | #192 | 17 | #2,652 |
| 1976 | 1,388 | #184 | 21 | #2,237 |
| 1975 | 1,601 | #165 | 19 | #2,356 |
| 1974 | 1,826 | #151 | 21 | #2,121 |
| 1973 | 2,089 | #137 | 31 | #1,585 |
| 1972 | 2,495 | #124 | 22 | #1,961 |
| 1971 | 3,166 | #115 | 28 | #1,702 |
| 1970 | 3,402 | #113 | 33 | #1,490 |
| 1969 | 3,903 | #93 | 19 | #1,970 |
| 1968 | 4,267 | #83 | 29 | #1,475 |
| 1967 | 4,523 | #77 | 24 | #1,606 |
| 1966 | 4,921 | #72 | 37 | #1,258 |
| 1965 | 5,373 | #69 | 23 | #1,667 |
| 1964 | 7,144 | #62 | 40 | #1,232 |
| 1963 | 7,704 | #58 | 36 | #1,317 |
| 1962 | 8,433 | #54 | 25 | #1,620 |
| 1961 | 8,730 | #51 | 29 | #1,517 |
| 1960 | 8,743 | #49 | 30 | #1,481 |
| 1959 | 8,783 | #46 | 27 | #1,555 |
| 1958 | 8,184 | #51 | 34 | #1,342 |
| 1957 | 6,972 | #68 | 30 | #1,450 |
| 1956 | 5,744 | #81 | 26 | #1,566 |
| 1955 | 5,153 | #85 | 17 | #1,970 |
| 1954 | 4,130 | #100 | 11 | #2,580 |
| 1953 | 2,725 | #130 | 14 | #2,175 |
| 1952 | 2,071 | #158 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,563 | #185 | 7 | #3,332 |
| 1950 | 1,106 | #228 | 7 | #3,288 |
| 1949 | 938 | #246 | 8 | #2,996 |
| 1948 | 849 | #260 | 6 | #3,627 |
| 1947 | 780 | #274 | 5 | #4,213 |
| 1946 | 510 | #330 | 5 | #3,968 |
| 1945 | 389 | #351 | — | — |
| 1944 | 242 | #464 | — | — |
| 1943 | 189 | #549 | — | — |
| 1942 | 143 | #630 | — | — |
| 1941 | 62 | #940 | — | — |
| 1940 | 51 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1939 | 41 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 1936 | 16 | #2,019 | — | — |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,478 | — | — |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,460 | — | — |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,628 | — | — |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,415 | — | — |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,683 | — | — |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,996 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,809 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,702 | — | — |
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).