Terri
Terri is a girl's name that peaked in 1959, when it was the 46th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 6,116th. About 127,000 Terris are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Terri boys named Terri
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 147,027
- Estimated living today
- 127,000
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1959
- Best rank
- 46th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,116th
- First recorded
- 1922
- Girls / boys
- 146,113 / 914
How old the living Terris are
born that year still alive today
Of the 147,027 babies given the name since 1922, about 127,000 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 720 of them are children and 48,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 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.
Notable Terris
- Terri Schiavo (1963–2005)American woman at the center of the Terri Schiavo case
- Terri Sewell (born 1965)American politician
- Terri Lyne Carrington (born 1965)American drummer
- Terri Clark (born 1968)Canadian country musician
- Terri Irwin (born 1964)American-Australian zoologist, conservationist and television host
- Terri Tatchell (born 1978)Canadian screenwriter
- Terri Runnels (born 1966)American professional wrestler, professional wrestling manager, television host, and model
- Terri Attwood (born 1959)British bioinformatician
People named Terri with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Terri is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Terri is most concentrated in Wyoming (1.7×), Montana (1.6×), Kansas (1.6×), West Virginia (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1959
The most popular girls’ names the year Terri peaked:
Terri elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Terri | 681 | 273rd |
| Scotland girls | Terri | 572 | 110th |
| Ireland girls | Terri | 143 | 279th |
| France girls | Terri | 50 | 883rd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Terri | 16 | 204th |
| France boys | Terri | 5 | 3,357th |
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.
Terri among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Terri | 12 | 13 |
| Finland boys | Terri | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Terri against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.