Terre
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Terre has been given to 937 babies in the U.S. since 1942. 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 1956, with 55 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.
Babies named Terre, 1992
1 in 768,000
Terre 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Terre over time
In 1997, Terre went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Terre?
Terre had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1992
- 1 in 768,000
- 5 of 3,839,369 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 369,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1992
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,251 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Terre sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1992 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,251 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Terre. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Terres were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Terre was born before 1959 — so the typical Terre is around 66 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 42.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 20.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 733
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 42.2% of all recorded uses (354).
Is Terre 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1956 (55)
- Years since peak
- 69
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.3% average annual change
Spellings of Terre
Terre is not the most common spelling — Terri is, with 25.2% against Terre's 0.14%.
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 Terre is used
Across 1910–2025, Terre was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 562,806 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Michigan1 in —
- 3Missouri1 in —
- 4Pennsylvania1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Terre has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Terre around the world
Where Terre 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 Australia1964–1966#658in 1966
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Terre by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Terre
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Terre
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.