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Terrin

About 970 American babies have been named Terrin since 1959, most of them around 1996. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2020. About 940 Terrins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Terrin boys named Terrin

Girls and boys called Terrin

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Terrin crossed from girls to boys in 1992, and has stayed there for 9 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 81% boys, and in 2009 it was 70%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 16 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
970
Estimated living today
940
Median age today
30
Peak year
1996
Best rank
2,679th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1959
Girls / boys
394 / 576

How old the living Terrins are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 970 babies given the name since 1959, about 940 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 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 Terrin is most common

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

Names of 1996

The most popular boys’ names the year Terrin peaked:

All the names of 1996

Related names

Terrin 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.