How popular is “Terrance” in the USA?

Number of people named “Terrance” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Terrance” by birth year

This chart shows how “Terrance” 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
1895	5	0.000014244		5	-100%
1910	6	0.000010157		6	-100%
1911	5	0.000007761		5	-100%
1912	11	0.000011133		11	-100%
1913	8	0.000007035		8	-100%
1914	7	0.000004942		7	-100%
1915	12	0.000006549		12	-100%
1916	18	0.000009305		18	-100%
1917	18	0.00000897		18	-100%
1918	15	0.000006909		15	-100%
1919	27	0.000012795		27	-100%
1920	23	0.000010165		23	-100%
1921	30	0.000012851		30	-100%
1922	24	0.000010484		24	-100%
1923	23	0.000009989		23	-100%
1924	19	0.000007978		19	-100%
1925	28	0.000012		28	-100%
1926	30	0.000013067		30	-100%
1927	45	0.000019402		45	-100%
1928	33	0.000014596		33	-100%
1929	34	0.00001551		34	-100%
1930	45	0.00002024		45	-100%
1931	42	0.000019958		42	-100%
1932	57	0.000026998		57	-100%
1933	56	0.000028008		56	-100%
1934	95	0.000045743		95	-100%
1935	102	0.000048806		102	-100%
1936	136	0.000065461		136	-100%
1937	147	0.000068992		147	-100%
1938	186	0.000084065		186	-100%
1939	254	0.000115274		254	-100%
1940	254	0.000110306		254	-100%
1941	300	0.000123131		300	-100%
1942	394	0.000144226		394	-100%
1943	470	0.000166516	8	462	-97%
1944	472	0.00017546		472	-100%
1945	459	0.000173018		459	-100%
1946	637	0.000199355	7	630	-98%
1947	801	0.000222357	10	791	-98%
1948	880	0.000254886	14	866	-97%
1949	845	0.000242483	16	829	-96%
1950	965	0.00027545	12	953	-98%
1951	930	0.000252461	17	913	-96%
1952	919	0.000241969	17	902	-96%
1953	981	0.000254564	16	965	-97%
1954	1138	0.000285879	18	1120	-97%
1955	1163	0.000289658	21	1142	-96%
1956	1066	0.000258547	10	1056	-98%
1957	1051	0.00025011	12	1039	-98%
1958	930	0.000224969	13	917	-97%
1959	839	0.00020178	12	827	-97%
1960	741	0.00017839	16	725	-96%
1961	768	0.000185404	11	757	-97%
1962	752	0.000186352	7	745	-98%
1963	819	0.000206912	10	809	-98%
1964	1141	0.000293497	21	1120	-96%
1965	968	0.000267001	22	946	-95%
1966	976	0.00028081	14	962	-97%
1967	1006	0.000296327	17	989	-97%
1968	1042	0.000308429	19	1023	-96%
1969	1002	0.000288319	20	982	-96%
1970	1201	0.000333009	23	1178	-96%
1971	1120	0.000326307	20	1100	-96%
1972	1128	0.000358893	19	1109	-97%
1973	1212	0.000401739	25	1187	-96%
1974	1091	0.000358882	24	1067	-96%
1975	1204	0.000398756	25	1179	-96%
1976	1224	0.000403388	25	1199	-96%
1977	1252	0.000394145	15	1237	-98%
1978	1296	0.000408334	13	1283	-98%
1979	1363	0.000409678	17	1346	-98%
1980	1398	0.000405864	19	1379	-97%
1981	1288	0.000372322	12	1276	-98%
1982	1277	0.000364029	10	1267	-98%
1983	1214	0.000350529	20	1194	-97%
1984	1227	0.000351701	13	1214	-98%
1985	1204	0.000337339	16	1188	-97%
1986	1144	0.000321612	10	1134	-98%
1987	1144	0.000317283	11	1133	-98%
1988	1440	0.000389711	16	1424	-98%
1989	1377	0.000358179	16	1361	-98%
1990	1236	0.000312715	13	1223	-98%
1991	1347	0.000345804		1347	-100%
1992	1282	0.000333744	7	1275	-99%
1993	1058	0.000280616		1058	-100%
1994	999	0.000268718	7	992	-99%
1995	848	0.000231558	8	840	-98%
1996	731	0.000200428		731	-100%
1997	720	0.00019858	7	713	-98%
1998	680	0.000184873		680	-100%
1999	688	0.000186255		688	-100%
2000	628	0.000166142		628	-100%
2001	580	0.00015494		580	-100%
2002	563	0.000150604		563	-100%
2003	552	0.000145175		552	-100%
2004	535	0.000140019		535	-100%
2005	562	0.00014617		562	-100%
2006	583	0.000147364		583	-100%
2007	569	0.000142332		569	-100%
2008	512	0.000130258		512	-100%
2009	562	0.000147114		562	-100%
2010	446	0.00012068		446	-100%
2011	428	0.00011701		428	-100%
2012	435	0.000118938		435	-100%
2013	409	0.000112188		409	-100%
2014	365	0.000098479		365	-100%
2015	377	0.000101867		377	-100%
2016	332	0.000090495		332	-100%
2017	307	0.000085845		307	-100%
2018	277	0.000078785		277	-100%
2019	230	0.000066265		230	-100%
2020	225	0.000067354		225	-100%
2021	203	0.000059918		203	-100%
2022	180	0.000053205		180	-100%
2023	155	0.000046811		155	-100%
2024	151	0.000045366		151	-100%

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