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Terrel

The boy's name Terrel has been in the national records since 1915, with 3,042 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 2,500 Terrels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Terrel boys named Terrel

By the numbers

Total US births
3,042
Estimated living today
2,500
Median age today
37
Peak year
1989
Best rank
1,082nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1915
Girls / boys
81 / 2,961

How old the living Terrels are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,042 babies given the name since 1915, about 2,500 are alive — 82 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 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 Terrel is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Terrel is most concentrated in Louisiana (8.2×), New York (3.7×), Florida (2.3×), Texas (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1989

The most popular boys’ names the year Terrel peaked:

All the names of 1989

Terrel elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Terrel 64 2,276th

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.

Related names

Terrel 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.