Tarrence
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tarrence has been given to 793 babies in the U.S. since 1962. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1978, with 27 recorded.
Babies named Tarrence, 2019
1 in 694,000
Tarrence over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Tarrence?
Tarrence had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 694,000
- 5 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 359,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tarrence sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tarrence. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tarrences were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tarrence was born before 1985 — so the typical Tarrence is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 26.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 28.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 793
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (212).
Is Tarrence rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1978 (27)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.8% average annual change
Spellings of Tarrence
Tarrence is not the most common spelling — Lawrence is, with 67.0% against Tarrence's 0.12%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Tarrence is used
Across 1910–2025, Tarrence was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 726,504 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tarrence has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tarrence around the world
Where Tarrence ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2004–2004#589in 2004
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Tarrence by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tarrence
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tarrence
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.