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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Terrence

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#1,600

down −73 places

2025 births

107

down −9 births

All-time births

72,412

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1955
1,497 births
Best rank
#176
in 1950
First recorded
1886
#644 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1972
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
132 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19551,497#181Peak
  2. 19701,460#187
  3. 19561,451#194
  4. 19541,440#184
  5. 19571,304#206

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #176 in 1950 · peak births 1,497 in 1955

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

72,412 boys · 527 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Terrence has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.