Terah

Where Terah comes from

From Hebrew תֶּרַח (téraḥ, “Terah”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Terah
  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1955
    First appearance
    #4,740 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1969
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1983
    Peak, #1,700
    64 babies named Terah — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1987
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,169.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.