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How popular is “Terry” in the USA?

Number of people named “Terry” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Terry” by birth year

This chart shows how “Terry” 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
1880 10 0.000049632 10 -100%
1882 7 0.000031598 7 -100%
1883 10 0.000046094 10 -100%
1884 10 0.000041074 10 -100%
1885 9 0.000037367 9 -100%
1886 12 0.000047001 12 -100%
1887 16 0.000064675 16 -100%
1888 15 0.000050088 15 -100%
1889 9 0.000031148 9 -100%
1890 12 0.000039814 12 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1892 19 0.000056823 7 12 -26%
1893 8 0.000024599 8 -100%
1894 12 0.000035431 12 -100%
1895 13 0.000037035 13 -100%
1896 20 0.000055947 20 -100%
1897 15 0.000043233 15 -100%
1898 14 0.000036702 14 -100%
1899 7 0.000020635 7 -100%
1900 21 0.00004664 21 -100%
1901 13 0.000037593 13 -100%
1902 18 0.000046544 18 -100%
1903 24 0.000062959 6 18 -50%
1904 18 0.000044611 18 -100%
1905 24 0.000056614 9 15 -25%
1906 23 0.000053682 10 13 -13%
1907 31 0.000066611 11 20 -29%
1908 29 0.000059347 6 23 -59%
1909 38 0.000074331 11 27 -42%
1910 46 0.000077872 16 30 -30%
1911 45 0.000069846 16 29 -29%
1912 66 0.000066797 17 49 -48%
1913 93 0.000081786 24 69 -48%
1914 95 0.000067074 37 58 -22%
1915 137 0.000074764 32 105 -53%
1916 116 0.000059966 31 85 -47%
1917 138 0.000068768 46 92 -33%
1918 154 0.000070931 54 100 -30%
1919 149 0.000070608 55 94 -26%
1920 196 0.000086624 54 142 -45%
1921 219 0.00009381 94 125 -14%
1922 228 0.0000996 98 130 -14%
1923 228 0.000099024 94 134 -18%
1924 256 0.00010749 116 140 -9%
1925 338 0.000144859 148 190 -12%
1926 310 0.000135023 145 165 -6%
1927 342 0.000147455 162 180 -5%
1928 360 0.000159226 142 218 -21%
1929 342 0.00015601 120 222 -30%
1930 448 0.000201503 152 296 -32%
1931 409 0.000194356 119 290 -42%
1932 579 0.00027424 149 430 -49%
1933 717 0.000358599 145 572 -60%
1934 866 0.000416984 146 720 -66%
1935 1157 0.000553615 195 962 -66%
1936 1491 0.000717663 200 1291 -73%
1937 1916 0.000899248 232 1684 -76%
1938 2609 0.00117917 273 2336 -79%
1939 2758 0.001251678 315 2443 -77%
1940 3352 0.001455692 370 2982 -78%
1941 4050 0.001662272 444 3606 -78%
1942 5628 0.002060167 818 4810 -71%
1943 6660 0.002359561 923 5737 -72%
1944 6890 0.002561263 914 5976 -73%
1945 7783 0.002933759 950 6833 -76%
1946 12595 0.003941718 1917 10678 -70%
1947 15042 0.00417564 2291 12751 -70%
1948 14416 0.004175503 2280 12136 -68%
1949 14248 0.004088642 2791 11457 -61%
1950 13959 0.003984463 2526 11433 -64%
1951 15258 0.004141987 3042 12216 -60%
1952 15471 0.004073455 3033 12438 -61%
1953 16633 0.004316174 3374 13259 -59%
1954 20341 0.005109895 4787 15554 -53%
1955 20939 0.005215089 5353 15586 -49%
1956 20338 0.004932771 5272 15066 -48%
1957 20884 0.004969845 5266 15618 -50%
1958 20335 0.004919079 5327 15008 -48%
1959 19760 0.004752294 5214 14546 -47%
1960 18770 0.004518738 4840 13930 -48%
1961 17552 0.004237258 4362 13190 -50%
1962 16342 0.004049689 4038 12304 -51%
1963 15980 0.004037189 3521 12459 -56%
1964 13776 0.00354357 2908 10868 -58%
1965 11112 0.003065 2022 9090 -64%
1966 10164 0.002924341 1710 8454 -66%
1967 9278 0.002732925 1594 7684 -66%
1968 8488 0.002512422 1398 7090 -67%
1969 7658 0.002203536 1243 6415 -68%
1970 7301 0.002024393 1114 6187 -69%
1971 6845 0.001994258 987 5858 -71%
1972 5519 0.001755969 749 4770 -73%
1973 5013 0.001661647 638 4375 -75%
1974 4545 0.001495066 519 4026 -77%
1975 4462 0.00147778 491 3971 -78%
1976 4055 0.001336387 387 3668 -81%
1977 3758 0.001183065 315 3443 -83%
1978 3364 0.001059905 275 3089 -84%
1979 3344 0.00100511 304 3040 -82%
1980 3273 0.000950209 292 2981 -82%
1981 3041 0.000879061 227 2814 -85%
1982 2996 0.000854057 235 2761 -84%
1983 2686 0.000775552 215 2471 -84%
1984 2516 0.000721174 181 2335 -86%
1985 2554 0.000715585 180 2374 -86%
1986 2398 0.000674149 147 2251 -88%
1987 2279 0.00063207 177 2102 -84%
1988 2220 0.000600805 155 2065 -86%
1989 2145 0.000557948 142 2003 -87%
1990 2009 0.000508289 114 1895 -89%
1991 1831 0.000470058 90 1741 -90%
1992 1696 0.00044152 101 1595 -88%
1993 1520 0.000403153 94 1426 -88%
1994 1294 0.000348069 76 1218 -88%
1995 1231 0.000336141 55 1176 -91%
1996 1147 0.000314488 53 1094 -91%
1997 1106 0.00030504 60 1046 -89%
1998 1012 0.000275134 65 947 -87%
1999 949 0.000256912 44 905 -91%
2000 877 0.000232016 30 847 -93%
2001 839 0.000224128 36 803 -91%
2002 717 0.000191799 30 687 -92%
2003 689 0.000181205 22 667 -94%
2004 706 0.000184772 49 657 -86%
2005 718 0.000186744 25 693 -93%
2006 638 0.000161266 24 614 -92%
2007 634 0.000158592 26 608 -92%
2008 595 0.000151374 15 580 -95%
2009 505 0.000132193 23 482 -91%
2010 542 0.000146655 21 521 -92%
2011 496 0.000135601 18 478 -93%
2012 499 0.000136437 17 482 -93%
2013 443 0.000121514 15 428 -93%
2014 432 0.000116556 9 423 -96%
2015 396 0.000107001 8 388 -96%
2016 399 0.000108758 11 388 -94%
2017 367 0.000102623 9 358 -95%
2018 324 0.000092153 10 314 -94%
2019 282 0.000081246 15 267 -89%
2020 246 0.00007364 8 238 -93%
2021 214 0.000063165 214 -100%
2022 238 0.000070349 7 231 -94%
2023 213 0.000064327 9 204 -92%
2024 184 0.00005528 10 174 -89%

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