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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Terah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Terah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Terah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Terah” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Terah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Terah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Terah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Terah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1955 7 0.000001743 7 100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1971 17 0.000004953 17 100%
1972 22 0.000007 22 100%
1973 25 0.000008287 25 100%
1974 38 0.0000125 33 5 74%
1975 33 0.000010929 33 100%
1976 34 0.000011205 34 100%
1977 58 0.000018259 53 5 83%
1978 49 0.000015439 43 6 76%
1979 45 0.000013526 45 100%
1980 53 0.000015387 48 5 81%
1981 64 0.0000185 58 6 81%
1982 58 0.000016534 53 5 83%
1983 64 0.000018479 64 100%
1984 53 0.000015192 53 100%
1985 65 0.000018212 65 100%
1986 40 0.000011245 40 100%
1987 29 0.000008043 29 100%
1988 42 0.000011367 42 100%
1989 34 0.000008844 34 100%
1990 55 0.000013915 55 100%
1991 36 0.000009242 30 6 67%
1992 23 0.000005988 23 100%
1993 34 0.000009018 34 100%
1994 24 0.000006456 24 100%
1995 19 0.000005188 19 100%
1996 29 0.000007951 29 100%
1997 21 0.000005792 21 100%
1998 23 0.000006253 23 100%
1999 19 0.000005144 19 100%
2000 20 0.000005291 20 100%
2001 20 0.000005343 20 100%
2002 20 0.00000535 20 100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 100%
2004 20 0.000005234 20 100%
2005 17 0.000004422 17 100%
2006 16 0.000004044 16 100%
2007 13 0.000003252 13 100%
2008 12 0.000003053 12 100%
2009 16 0.000004188 16 100%
2010 12 0.000003247 12 100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 100%
2012 11 0.000003008 11 100%
2013 7 0.00000192 7 100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 100%

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