Terell

Where Terell comes from

Terell hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1957
    First appearance
    #3,552 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1985
    Peak, #939
    94 babies named Terell — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1991
    Terell Parks born
    American basketball player
  4. 1995
    Terell Thomas born
    English association football player
  5. 2007
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,188.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Terell Thomas · English association football player, born 1995
  • Terell Parks · American basketball player, born 1991
  • Terell Smith · American football player, born 1999

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.