Teryl

Last seen for girls in 1993 at #13,442 · Last seen for boys in 1999 at #8,704
Given to girls 74.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
1945 · 28 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
779
since 1939

Teryl over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201945peak #1,543, 1945peak #2,210, 1960girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1999#8,7046
1998#9,6315
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1993#13,4425
1992#13,3175#6,1288
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1989#6,9416
1988#6,4266
1987#9,8256
1986#9,5456
1985#6,5235
1984#9,1446#4,9737
1983#10,2755
1982#6,37110#5,6196
1981
1980#6,7899
1979#4,0689
1978#9,7505
1977#6,8928
1976#4,9356
1975#7,1737
1974#5,01111
1973#5,5809#5,1015
1972#5,9598#3,3449
1971#5,5439#4,3756
1970#3,71216#4,7245
1969#3,95813#4,4045
1968#3,78913
1967#3,08517#2,47011
1966#2,66821
1965#2,93818#3,2447
1964#3,37915#2,66510
1963#1,98135#3,0448
1962#1,98934#3,3057
1961#2,54323#2,9009
1960#2,19628#2,21014
1959#2,05430#2,41412
1958#2,37623#3,5596
1957#1,95731#3,2577
1956#1,79635#2,7989
1955#1,80334#2,7649
1954#1,98728#2,7439
1953#2,12224
1952#2,07424#2,6809
1951#1,92126#3,3646
1950#1,72030#3,0217
1949#1,66632#3,0197
1948#1,82027
1947#1,94625#2,8628
1946#2,22818#2,9197
1945#1,54328
1944#3,6877
1943#4,6915#2,9647
1942#4,6225
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First appearance
1939

The first year at least five girls were named Teryl! It came in at #4,250, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1939–1943, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

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Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1993
Rise & fade · girls
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1939
  • Peaked 1945 at #1,543 (28 births)
  • Births halved by 1968, 23 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 46,682
  • Highest: 1 in 46,682 girls born in 1945 were named Teryl (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 361,814 girls born in 1993 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 36.6% of all girls named Teryl (285) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1998
  • Mostly girls until 1997, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s5#4,250 (1939)#4,250
1940s147#1,543 (1945)#2,775
1950s285#1,720 (1950)#1,981
1960s217#1,981 (1963)#2,853
1970s73#3,712 (1970)#6,203
1980s42#6,371 (1982)#8,658
1990s10#13,317 (1992)#13,380

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Teryl in 1945

girls
#1,543
28 births · 1 in 46,682 girls

Top girls' names in 1945

  1. #1Mary59,278
  2. #2Linda41,465
  3. #3Barbara38,273
  4. #4Patricia35,844
  5. #5Carol30,389
  6. #6Sandra24,700
  7. #7Nancy21,456
  8. #8Sharon20,838
  9. #9Judith20,192
  10. #10Susan19,222
  11. #1,543Teryl28
More about 1945

girls

1,307,090 girls got a published name in 1945; 1 in 46,682 of them was named Teryl, which outranked 70.6% of the 5,242 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Teryl
  1. #1,514Sueann29
  2. #1,514Verdie29
  3. #1,514Winnifred29
  4. #1,543Teryl28
  5. #1,543Angelia28
  6. #1,543Annamae28
  7. #1,543Annita28
  8. #1,588Albert27
  9. #1,588Allean27
  10. #1,588Andree27

Tied with 44 names at #1,543; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1944
Risers
  1. 799Lauren#1,153#354
  2. 707Amber#1,661#954
  3. 648Laureen#1,315#667
  4. 630Deidre#1,609#979
  5. 623Candice#1,364#741
Fallers
  1. 395Bernardine#937#1,332
  2. 386Joella#988#1,374
  3. 342Venita#937#1,279
  4. 275Magdalene#867#1,142
  5. 249Alpha#964#1,213

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1945