How Many People Are Named Terance?

2,480

people named Terance are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 137,816 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,840 babies named Terance in Social Security records from 1938 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,855

๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#2,177

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Peak Year

1991

76 births

Trend

โ†’

Stable (last 10 years)

๐Ÿ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: TER-ษ™nts
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant of TERENCE.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Terance in English. Counting Terance and these spellings together, about 147,601 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

TerentiusTerenceTerranceTerrenceTerentiTerenzioTerentiyBRITISHTelTerry

โšง Gender Distribution

Female
0.0%
Male
100.0%

All of the babies given the name Terance in the records were boys.

๐Ÿ‘ฅ Age Distribution

The average person named Terance alive today is about 44 years old, and 60% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 33 and 57 in 2025.

Under 30 464
18.7%
30 to 59 1,494
60.2%
60 and over 522
21%

๐Ÿ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Terance first appears in the records in 1938 and was given most often in 1991, to 76 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.

Babies given the name each year, 1938 to 2024

๐Ÿ† Rank History

Terance has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #940, in 1966.

Boys
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#940 (1966)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,243 in the 1980s

๐Ÿ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Terance alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Terance were born in Texas than in any other state: about 106 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Terance was given 4.2 times as often in Georgia, 2.8 times in Texas and 2.6 times in Michigan.

Texas 106
California 66
New York 62
Georgia 54
Michigan 46
Florida 32
Illinois 28
Ohio 28
Louisiana 15
Tennessee 14
Alabama 14
Pennsylvania 8
New Jersey 5
South Carolina 5
Mississippi 5
North Carolina 5

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