Terri

Where Terri comes from

Terri 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1922
    First appearance
    #5,009 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    Peak, #46
    8,783 babies named Terri — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1965
    Terri Lyne Carrington born
    American drummer
  4. 1965
    Terri Sewell born
    American politician
  5. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #83.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Terri Sewell · American politician, born 1965
  • Terri Lyne Carrington · American drummer, born 1965
  • Terri Clark · Canadian country musician, born 1968
  • Terri Irwin · American-Australian zoologist, conservationist and television host, born 1964
  • Terri Tatchell · Canadian screenwriter, born 1978

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.