Terrel
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Terrel has been given to 3,042 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1989, with 94 recorded.
Babies named Terrel, 2024
1 in 478,000
Terrel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Terrel?
Terrel 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 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 246,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Terrel sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Terrel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Terrels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Terrel was born before 1986 — so the typical Terrel is around 39 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 22.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,540
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 22.6% of all recorded uses (669).
Is Terrel 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 1989 (94)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.2% average annual change
Spellings of Terrel
Terrel is not the most common spelling — Terry is, with 74.7% against Terrel's 0.52%.
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 Terrel is used
Across 1910–2025, Terrel was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 177,801 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
- 2Florida1 in 100,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 4New York1 in 100,000
- 5Texas1 in 100,000
- 6Alabama1 in —
- 7California1 in —
- 8Connecticut1 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. Terrel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Terrel around the world
Where Terrel 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.
- England & Wales1996–2011#4,647in 2011
- Canada1997–2002#1,817in 2002
- South Australia2000–2000#556in 2000
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Terrel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Terrel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Terrel
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Terrel, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Terrel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.