Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Terence” in the USA?

Number of people named “Terence” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Terence” 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 “Terence” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Terence” by birth year

This chart shows how “Terence” 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
1885 9 0.000037367 9 -100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1888 9 0.000030053 9 -100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 -100%
1906 8 0.000018672 8 -100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1912 19 0.00001923 19 -100%
1913 10 0.000008794 10 -100%
1914 19 0.000013415 19 -100%
1915 20 0.000010914 20 -100%
1916 22 0.000011373 22 -100%
1917 26 0.000012956 26 -100%
1918 22 0.000010133 22 -100%
1919 26 0.000012321 26 -100%
1920 46 0.00002033 46 -100%
1921 68 0.000029128 68 -100%
1922 42 0.000018347 42 -100%
1923 38 0.000016504 38 -100%
1924 37 0.000015536 37 -100%
1925 28 0.000012 28 -100%
1926 31 0.000013502 31 -100%
1927 39 0.000016815 39 -100%
1928 33 0.000014596 33 -100%
1929 51 0.000023265 51 -100%
1930 44 0.000019791 44 -100%
1931 48 0.000022809 48 -100%
1932 74 0.00003505 74 -100%
1933 63 0.000031509 63 -100%
1934 66 0.000031779 66 -100%
1935 97 0.000046414 97 -100%
1936 108 0.000051984 108 -100%
1937 120 0.00005632 120 -100%
1938 126 0.000056947 126 -100%
1939 120 0.00005446 120 -100%
1940 136 0.000059061 136 -100%
1941 171 0.000070185 171 -100%
1942 203 0.000074309 203 -100%
1943 264 0.000093532 264 -100%
1944 212 0.000078808 212 -100%
1945 243 0.000091598 243 -100%
1946 349 0.000109223 349 -100%
1947 441 0.000122421 5 436 -98%
1948 402 0.000116437 402 -100%
1949 390 0.000111915 390 -100%
1950 447 0.000127592 447 -100%
1951 405 0.000109943 405 -100%
1952 445 0.000117167 445 -100%
1953 478 0.000124038 478 -100%
1954 661 0.000166051 661 -100%
1955 772 0.000192275 5 767 -99%
1956 887 0.000215133 887 -100%
1957 795 0.000189189 795 -100%
1958 715 0.00017296 715 -100%
1959 746 0.000179414 6 740 -98%
1960 754 0.00018152 754 -100%
1961 734 0.000177196 5 729 -99%
1962 754 0.000186848 7 747 -98%
1963 815 0.000205902 6 809 -99%
1964 1025 0.000263658 10 1015 -98%
1965 768 0.000211836 768 -100%
1966 814 0.0002342 9 805 -98%
1967 772 0.0002274 6 766 -98%
1968 793 0.000234726 7 786 -98%
1969 629 0.00018099 5 624 -98%
1970 601 0.000166643 6 595 -98%
1971 546 0.000159074 7 539 -97%
1972 537 0.000170856 8 529 -97%
1973 502 0.000166397 502 -100%
1974 491 0.000161513 6 485 -98%
1975 488 0.000161622 8 480 -97%
1976 421 0.000138747 421 -100%
1977 425 0.000133795 425 -100%
1978 414 0.00013044 8 406 -96%
1979 380 0.000114217 380 -100%
1980 395 0.000114675 395 -100%
1981 413 0.000119386 413 -100%
1982 486 0.000138542 7 479 -97%
1983 524 0.000151299 524 -100%
1984 557 0.000159656 6 551 -98%
1985 561 0.000157182 12 549 -96%
1986 511 0.000143657 8 503 -97%
1987 490 0.000135899 9 481 -96%
1988 602 0.000162921 7 595 -98%
1989 579 0.000150607 7 572 -98%
1990 482 0.000121949 482 -100%
1991 425 0.000109107 425 -100%
1992 437 0.000113764 437 -100%
1993 358 0.000094953 358 -100%
1994 343 0.000092263 343 -100%
1995 289 0.000078915 289 -100%
1996 247 0.000067723 247 -100%
1997 172 0.000047438 172 -100%
1998 204 0.000055462 204 -100%
1999 223 0.00006037 223 -100%
2000 202 0.000053441 202 -100%
2001 164 0.000043811 164 -100%
2002 148 0.00003959 148 -100%
2003 177 0.000046551 177 -100%
2004 136 0.000035593 136 -100%
2005 122 0.000031731 122 -100%
2006 138 0.000034882 138 -100%
2007 145 0.000036271 145 -100%
2008 130 0.000033073 130 -100%
2009 129 0.000033768 129 -100%
2010 143 0.000038693 143 -100%
2011 127 0.00003472 127 -100%
2012 135 0.000036912 135 -100%
2013 116 0.000031819 116 -100%
2014 111 0.000029948 111 -100%
2015 101 0.000027291 101 -100%
2016 97 0.00002644 97 -100%
2017 81 0.00002265 81 -100%
2018 70 0.00001991 70 -100%
2019 77 0.000022184 77 -100%
2020 59 0.000017662 59 -100%
2021 56 0.000016529 56 -100%
2022 61 0.000018031 61 -100%
2023 37 0.000011174 37 -100%
2024 43 0.000012919 43 -100%

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