Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.
1955 is the peak year for Terry, with 20,939 births. The name is already in use in 1880, where the data begins. Across the record, 42 years put Terry in the top 100.
The 2025 position is #1,115, on 202 births. The ten-year change is -49%. It climbed 71 places against the previous year.
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.
How many people are named Terry?
About 391,800 people named Terry are alive in the United States today. SSA has recorded 521,478 births under the name since 1880. The split is about 78,700 women and 313,100 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 Terry?
Half of living Terrys are older than 65, half younger. More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Terry a mid-century name.
Your Terry
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.
Where Terry is most common
Mississippi uses the name 4.0× as often as the country as a whole. Louisiana, Kentucky and Alabama follow.
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Terry is over-represented, 2016–2025.
The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.