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Terance

Boys' name

Variant of Terence

Terance has been given to 2,840 babies in the U.S. since 1938. 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 1991, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Terance, 2024

1 in 334,000

Terance over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Terance: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Terence

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Terance means

Terance is a variant of Terence.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Terance is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɛɹ.əns/ for Terance.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Terance → Terence → Terentius. The family’s proposed meaning is “polished; smooth”, recorded in Latin with the source elements teres.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Terence.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,840 boys were recorded with the name Terance between 1938 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 76 in 1991; its best national rank was #940 in 1966.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Terance?

Terance had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 334,000
10 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 172,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
231,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Terance sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Terance. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Terances were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Terance was born before 1979 — so the typical Terance is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
21.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,736
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1980s — 21.1% of all recorded uses (600).

Is Terance 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 1991 (76)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#940
1966

Spellings of Terance

Terance is not the most common spelling — Terrence is, with 35.7% against Terance's 1.4%.

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 Terance is used

Across 1910–2025, Terance was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 203,658 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in —
  8. 8California1 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. Terance has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Terance around the world

Where Terance 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.

  • Ireland
    1977–1977
    #333
    in 1977
  • France
    2010–2013
    #5,613
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1994–2010
    #2,386
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1944–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Terance

People whose public names include Terance, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Terance by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#940
1966
Peak year
1991
76 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,840
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Terance

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

TerenceTerranceTerrenceTerrionTerellTerronTerrickTerranCadenceTerrillKadenceTerrelTorrenceTorranceTerrellTerraceLorenceRanceTeresaTerreanceTarranceKaydenceTerrisLawrance

Names with a curve like Terance

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Terance, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RenardRichardoReinaldoAnthoneyKevanMichaleBrienPhilippeGreggoryRojelioRenaldoLamarr

Sibling names for Terance

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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