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Teri vs Terron

American parents have registered 44,171 Teris since 1880, against 2,526 Terrons. Teri is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Teri against Terron, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Teri Terron

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 96 years in which either name was published, Teri for 74 years and Terron for 22 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Teri Terron
Total US births 44,1712,526
Most in one year 2,33979
Babies in 2025 76
Estimated living today 39,0002,400
Median age today 6132
Peak year 19601992
Best rank 171st girls1,274th boys
Rank in 2025 11,932nd10,695th
First recorded 19201946
Girls / boys 43,957 / 21432 / 2,494

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Teris alive today are over 61; half the Terrons are over 32. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Teri and Terron.