How rare is the name Terrie?

15,787 people in the United States have the first name Terrie, about 1 in 19,132. It ranks #1,845 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TERRIE

#1,845

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
15,787
About
1 in 19,132
This common or more
77.3%
Who bears it

Of the 15,787 people named Terrie, 78.4% reported their origin as White, 13.4% as Black and 3.4% as two or more races. 98.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Terrie peaked in 1961, when 1,133 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19182022
Peak year
1961
Births that year
1,133
In 2022
5 ▼100%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 20,068 babies have been given the name since 1918. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Terrie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #582. The largest share of babies named Terrie, 66.8%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1910s#9,75211
1920s#9,63524
1930s#3,960134
1940s#1,0561,673
1950s#5827,241
1960s#6127,584
1970s#1,2112,259
1980s#2,595756
1990s#6,355278
2000s#18,40382
2010s#33,39421
2020s#39,3255
Greatest Generation 1901–270.1%
Silent Generation 1928–453.4%
Baby boom 1946–6466.8%
Generation X 1965–8024.6%
Millennials 1981–964.2%
Generation Z 1997–120.8%
2013 and later0.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Terrie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Terrie has been most common in Utah (1.8×), Oregon (1.7×), and Oklahoma (1.6×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.21×).

17,127 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Terrie, most common first.

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