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Terry
Pronounced /ˈtɛɹi/
Rank in 2024
#1,186
Born in 2024
174
Peak year
1957 · #33
Origin
Germanic, Latin
Also recorded for girls:10 in 2024 (#9,592)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 174 boys were named Terry, about 1 in every 9,858.
- It peaked in 1957 with 15,618 babies, ranked #33.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 424,330 boys 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
- 2.0Silent1928–45
- 6.7Boomers1946–64
- 3.1Gen X1965–80
- 1.0Millennials1981–96
- 0.4Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 2,082 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Silent: 41,408 babies, 2.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 250,497 babies, 6.67 per 1,000. Gen X: 84,141 babies, 3.09 per 1,000. Millennials: 31,321 babies, 1.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 11,017 babies, 0.35 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,627 babies, 0.17 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.