Terran
The boy's name Terran has been in the national records since 1945, with 2,102 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,861st. About 2,000 Terrans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Terran
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Terran crossed from girls to boys in 1986, and has stayed there for 32 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 36 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,102
- Estimated living today
- 2,000
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 1992
- Best rank
- 1,677th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,861st
- First recorded
- 1945
- Girls / boys
- 566 / 1,536
How old the living Terrans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,102 babies given the name since 1945, about 2,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 510 of them are children and 10 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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.
Notable Terrans
- Terran Petteway (born 1992)American basketball player
People named Terran with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Terran is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Terran is most concentrated in California (5.0×), Texas (4.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1992
The most popular boys’ names the year Terran peaked:
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Terran against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.