Terren
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Terren has been given to 728 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 1997, with 27 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 77% boys, 23% girls all-time.
Babies named Terren, 2022
1 in 677,000
Terren 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Terren over time
In 2022, Terren 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 Terren?
Terren had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 677,000
- 5 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 349,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Terren sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Terren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Terrens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Terren was born before 1998 — so the typical Terren is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 30.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 52.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 559
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (170).
Is Terren 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1997 (27)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.5% average annual change
Spellings of Terren
Terren is not the most common spelling — Terry is, with 48.0% against Terren's 0.06%.
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 Terren is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Terren was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 917,511 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Terren has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Terren is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Terren was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Terren has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Terren around the world
Where Terren 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.
- Canada2007–2007#2,479in 2007
- South Australia1998–1998#534in 1998
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Terren by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Terren
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Terren
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.