Terence

Where Terence comes from

From Latin Terentius, a Roman family name of obscure origin, borne by a Roman playwright and by early Christian saints. * In Ireland, it has been used to represent Turlough.
— Wiktionary's entry for Terence
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1885
    First appearance
    #641 among boys, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1938
    Terence Stamp born
    British actor
  3. 1964
    Peak, #241
    1,014 babies named Terence — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #338.
  5. 1975
    Terence Tao born
    Australian-American mathematician
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin, popular in the U.K. in the mid-twentieth century.
Namesakes
  • Terence Tao · Australian-American mathematician, born 1975
  • Terence Stamp · British actor, 1938–2025
  • Terence McKenna · American ethnobotanist and mystic, 1946–2000
  • Terence Kongolo · Dutch-Swiss association football player, born 1994
  • Terence Young · British film director and screenwriter, 1915–1994

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.