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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Terry

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#1,116

up +71 places

2025 births

192

up +18 births

All-time births

424,523

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1957
15,624 births
Best rank
#26
in 1946
First recorded
1880
#632 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1961
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
145 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 195715,624#33Peak
  2. 195515,586#28
  3. 195415,553#27
  4. 195615,064#31
  5. 195815,006#33

Rank over time

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

Best rank #26 in 1946 · peak births 15,624 in 1957

Boys and girls

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

● 81% boys■ 19% girls

424,523 boys · 96,955 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 Terry has ranked, decade by decade

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