Terell
Last seen for girls in 1988 at #9,244 · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to boys 98.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1985 · 94 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,695since 1957
Terell over time
Rank among boys' names. Terell has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #12,008 | 5 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,832 | 12 | |
| 2023 | — | #10,821 | 6 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,828 | 12 | |
| 2021 | — | #6,335 | 13 | |
| 2020 | — | #9,554 | 7 | |
| 2019 | — | #6,777 | 12 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,320 | 17 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,993 | 26 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,990 | 26 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,775 | 28 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,693 | 28 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,964 | 25 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,625 | 29 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,235 | 34 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,531 | 30 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,663 | 46 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,753 | 44 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,188 | 35 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,248 | 56 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,265 | 52 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,051 | 58 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,206 | 49 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,851 | 61 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,763 | 64 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,815 | 59 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,408 | 83 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,398 | 82 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,706 | 57 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,552 | 64 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,369 | 74 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,078 | 107 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,118 | 101 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,068 | 105 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,077 | 102 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,042 | 103 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,030 | 100 | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #1,076 | 85 |
| 1987 | — | #1,054 | 82 | |
| 1986 | — | #983 | 88 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #939 | 94 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #1,110 | 66 |
| 1983 | — | #1,130 | 63 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,487 | 42 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,334 | 49 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #1,324 | 50 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #1,991 | 26 |
| 1978 | — | #1,487 | 39 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,743 | 30 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,646 | 32 | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #2,205 | 20 |
| 1974 | — | #2,277 | 18 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,513 | 15 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #3,152 | 10 |
| 1971 | — | #2,279 | 17 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,739 | 12 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,415 | 13 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,907 | 9 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Terell! It came in at #3,552, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1965, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Terell
- 5,176 spots since 2024 (#6,832 → #12,008)
- 2,454 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #12,008)
- 8,233 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #12,008)
- Biggest jump: 171 spots in 1985 (#1,110 → #939)
- Biggest drop: 71 spots in 1987 (#983 → #1,054)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 1985 at #939 (94 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1985–1986
- Highest: 1 in 18,056 boys born in 1994 were named Terell (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #939 in 1985, was only 1 in 19,662 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.6% of all boys named Terell (878) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 6 | #3,552 (1957) | #3,552 |
| 1960s | 39 | #2,415 (1969) | #3,293 |
| 1970s | 219 | #1,487 (1978) | #2,203 |
| 1980s | 719 | #939 (1985) | #1,147 |
| 1990s | 878 | #1,042 (1990) | #1,282 |
| 2000s | 524 | #1,763 (2001) | #2,280 |
| 2010s | 255 | #3,235 (2011) | #4,190 |
| 2020s | 55 | #6,335 (2021) | #8,730 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Terell in 1976
Top boys' names in 1976
More about 1976
boys
1,569,007 boys got a published name in 1976; 1 in 49,031 of them was named Terell, which outranked 74.7% of the 6,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,608Tavaris33
- #1,608Terron33
- #1,608Winfred33
- #1,646Terell32
- #1,646Baldemar32
- #1,646Brodrick32
- #1,646Butch32
- #1,677Addison31
- #1,677Antuan31
- #1,677Antwaun31
Tied with 30 names at #1,646; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.