Terrylee
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Terrylee has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1955, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% girls, 25% boys all-time.
Babies named Terrylee, 1965
1 in 725,000
Terrylee 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Terrylee over time
In 1986, Terrylee 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 Terrylee?
Terrylee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1965, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1965
- 1 in 725,000
- 5 of 3,625,243 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 353,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1965
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 502,567 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Terrylee sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1965 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 502,567 children born in 1965 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Terrylee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Terrylees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Terrylee was born before 1955 — so the typical Terrylee is around 70 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 33.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 20
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Terrylee 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 1955 (10)
- Years since peak
- 70
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Terrylee
Terrylee is not the most common spelling — Merrilee is, with 71.5% against Terrylee's 1.1%.
Terrylee around the world
Where Terrylee 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 Australia1972–1972#722in 1972
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Terrylee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Terrylee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Terrylee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.