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Terrilynn

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Terrilynn has been given to 424 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1961, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Terrilynn, 2019

1 in 694,000

Terrilynn over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Terrilynn: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Terrilynn means

Terrilynn is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Terrilynn is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 424 girls were recorded with the name Terrilynn between 1946 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1961; its best national rank was #2,531 in 1961.

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 Terrilynn?

Terrilynn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Terrilynn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Terrilynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Terrilynns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Terrilynn was born before 1967 — so the typical Terrilynn is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
38.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
416
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Choose a decade

1960s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (164).

Is Terrilynn 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 1961 (24)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,531
1961

Spellings of Terrilynn

Terrilynn is not the most common spelling — Jerilynn is, with 22.2% against Terrilynn's 7.3%.

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 Terrilynn is used

Across 1910–2025, Terrilynn was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,752,106 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 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. Terrilynn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Terrilynn around the world

Where Terrilynn 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.

  • Canada
    1991–1999
    #2,199
    in 1999

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Terrilynn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,531
1961
Peak year
1961
24 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
424
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Terrilynn

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

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Sibling names for Terrilynn

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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