Terrie

Where Terrie comes from

Terrie 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. 1918
    First appearance
    #4,809 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1955
    Terrie Moffitt born
    American psychologist and criminologist
  3. 1960
    Peak, #269
    1,110 babies named Terrie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #396.
  5. 1978
    Terrie Miller born
    Norwegian swimmer
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Terrie Moffitt · American psychologist and criminologist, born 1955
  • Terrie Miller · Norwegian swimmer, born 1978
  • Terrie Snell · American actress, born 1944
  • Terrie Wood · American politician

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.