Tery
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tery has been given to 164 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% boys, 21% girls all-time.
Babies named Tery, 1991
1 in 487,000
Tery 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Tery over time
In 1991, Tery 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 Tery?
Tery had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1991
- 1 in 487,000
- 8 of 3,892,928 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 252,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1991
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 337,298 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tery sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 337,298 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tery. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Terys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tery was born before 1961 — so the typical Tery is around 64 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 39.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 34.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 130
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 39.2% of all recorded uses (51).
Is Tery 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 1955 (11)
- Years since peak
- 70
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.2% average annual change
Spellings of Tery
Tery is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 21.2% against Tery's <0.01%.
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.
Tery around the world
Where Tery 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.
- France1984–2017#6,132in 2017
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Tery by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Tery
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tery
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.