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Terrill

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Terrill has been given to 5,079 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1975, with 122 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% boys, 14% girls all-time.

Babies named Terrill, 2024

1 in 557,000

Terrill over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Terrill over time

In 2024, Terrill went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19172024

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.

Terrill: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Terrill means

Terrill is a given name.

The naming story behind Terrill

Wikidata records Terrill as a given name. The entity identifier is Q83406183, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,365 boys were recorded with the name Terrill between 1917 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 122 in 1975; its best national rank was #710 in 1948.

In the United States, 714 girls were recorded with the name Terrill between 1932 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 46 in 1947; its best national rank was #1,374 in 1947.

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.

How common is Terrill?

Terrill 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 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Terrill 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Terrill. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Terrills were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Terrill was born before 1975 — so the typical Terrill is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
22.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,691
People you could plausibly meet
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1970s — 22.6% of all recorded uses (987).

Is Terrill 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (122)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#710
1948

Spellings of Terrill

Terrill is not the most common spelling — Terrell is, with 40.8% against Terrill's 4.9%.

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 Terrill is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Terrill was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 114,728 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 50,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 50,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 50,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Iowa1 in 100,000
  8. 8Idaho1 in 100,000

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. Terrill has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Terrill is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Terrill was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,164,941 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4Oregon1 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. Terrill has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Terrill around the world

Where Terrill 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 Australia
    1974–1974
    #455
    in 1974

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Terrill 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
#710
1948
Peak year
1975
122 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
4,365
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,374
1947
Peak year
1947
46 that year
First recorded
1932
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
714
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Terrill

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

TerrionTerellTerronTerrickTeranceTerranTerenceTerrellMerrillTerrelTerraceTeresaTerranceTerrenceTerrisTerelleTerrylTermaineTerryonTerrianTerralTerrinTerrelleTerren

Names with a curve like Terrill

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

DonellRojelioShedrickTitoLamarrMichaleBrookeEdwardoGorgeArnoldoCharltonAdrain

Sibling names for Terrill

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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