Teri
Teri is a girl's name that peaked in 1960, when it was the 171st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 11,932nd. About 39,000 Teris are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 61.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Teri boys named Teri
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 44,171
- Estimated living today
- 39,000
- Median age today
- 61
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 171st
- Rank in 2025
- 11,932nd
- First recorded
- 1920
- Girls / boys
- 43,957 / 214
How old the living Teris are
born that year still alive today
Of the 44,171 babies given the name since 1920, about 39,000 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 210 of them are children and 13,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
A spelling variant of Terry, from Teresa.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Teris
- Teri Hatcher (born 1964)American actress
- Teri Garr (1944–2024)American actress
- Teri Polo (born 1969)American actress
- Teri Weigel (born 1962)American pornographic actress and model
- Teri McMinn (born 1951)American actress
People named Teri with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Teri is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Teri is most concentrated in Montana (2.6×), Utah (2.3×), Nebraska (2.2×), Oregon (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular girls’ names the year Teri peaked:
Teri elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Teri | 379 | 439th |
| Scotland girls | Teri | 331 | 203rd |
| France girls | Teri | 80 | 3,268th |
| France boys | Teri | 20 | 4,163rd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Teri | 10 | 291st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Teri among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Teri | 17 | 20 |
| Finland boys | Teri | 11 | 14 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Teri against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.