Terrance
Terrance is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 151 births. Its best rank was 179th, in 1979–1980.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1510.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19881,424 births
- Best rank
- #179first in 1979
- Since 1895
- 70,058people given the name
The story in the numbers
70,058 boys have been named Terrance in the United States since 1895, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1988, with 1,424 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1977, and the 1980s alone account for 18%. It has spent 89 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Terrance | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 127 | |
| 1920s | 289 | |
| 1930s | 1,120 | |
| 1940s | 5,457 | |
| 1950s | 9,834 | |
| 1960s | 9,058 | |
| 1970s | 11,885 | |
| 1980s | 12,570 | |
| 1990s | 9,547 | |
| 2000s | 5,646 | |
| 2010s | 3,606 | |
| 2020s | 914 |
In 1988, its biggest year
Terrance was the 193rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1988 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1988.
Names that rose and fell with Terrance
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Donnellpeak 1982
- Terrencepeak 1955
- Lonnellpeak 1970
- Johnellpeak 1990
- Terancepeak 1991
- Donellpeak 1959
- Rojeliopeak 1981
- Renardpeak 1970
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.