Terrance
Terrance reached its high-water mark in 1988 at number 193, and has been recorded 70,921 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,564th. About 60,000 Terrances are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Terrance boys named Terrance
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 70,921
- Estimated living today
- 60,000
- Median age today
- 44
- Peak year
- 1988
- Best rank
- 193rd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,564th
- First recorded
- 1895
- Girls / boys
- 751 / 70,170
How old the living Terrances are
born that year still alive today
Of the 70,921 babies given the name since 1895, about 60,000 are alive — 84 in every hundred. Roughly 5,700 of them are children and 10,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Terrances
- Terrance Drew (born 1976)4th Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Terrance Cauthen (born 1976)American boxer
People named Terrance with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Terrance is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Terrance is most concentrated in Louisiana (2.1×), North Dakota (2.1×), Mississippi (2.0×), Michigan (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1988
The most popular boys’ names the year Terrance peaked:
Terrance elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Terrance | 50 | 2,282nd |
| France boys | Terrance | 5 | 1,503rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Terrance against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.