Terran

Boys' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US: ~2,000 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #5,861 among boys
Births in 2025: 15 2,102 since 1880
Typical age: 28 years, median

Terran popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1945–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

1985 is the peak year for Terran, with 69 births. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1945. The 2025 position is #5,861, on 15 births.

Over ten years the count has fallen 63%. Year on year the rank improved by 971.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Terran?

About 2,000 people named Terran are alive in the United States today. SSA has recorded 2,102 births under the name since 1880. The split is about 550 women and 1,500 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Terran?

Half of living Terrans are older than 28, half younger. Most living bearers were born in the 1990s. By the site’s era rules that makes Terran a late 20th-century name.

Your Terran

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Notable people named Terran

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
Name		Known for	Years	Editions
	Terran Petteway	American basketball player	1992	12

Photo credits (1)

Terran Petteway — TastyPoutine, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Terran

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Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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