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Terry
Pronounced /ˈtɛɹi/
Rank in 2024
#9,592
Born in 2024
10
Peak year
1955 · #83
Origin
Germanic, Latin
Also recorded for boys:174 in 2024 (#1,186)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 10 girls were named Terry, about 1 in every 161,319.
- It peaked in 1955 with 5,353 babies, ranked #83.
- It first shows up in the records in 1892.
- 96,944 girls have been named Terry since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Terry per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.3Silent1928–45
- 2.0Boomers1946–64
- 0.5Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,292 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Silent: 6,607 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Boomers: 72,142 babies, 2.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 14,038 babies, 0.55 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,242 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 505 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 111 babies, 0.01 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
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- A surname originating as a patronymic from the medieval Norman given name Thierry, a cognate of the English Derek.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages transferred back from the surname, or a diminutive of Terence or of any of its alternative forms.
- A male given name from Latin derived from the Latin for the third ("tertius") given to a third child or a child whose name has the suffix III.
- A female given name, diminutive of Teresa or any of its alternative forms.
- Origin
- Germanic, Latin
- Say it
- /ˈtɛɹi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Terry, CC BY-SA 4.0.